Chhatapur Assembly constituency

Chhatapur
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictSupaul
Established1967
ReservationNone
Elected year2020

Chhatapur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Supaul district in the Indian state of Bihar. It has been an open seat since 2010, but earlier it was reserved for Scheduled Castes. There are a total of 23 gram panchayat under the Chhatapur block.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 45 Chhatapur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chhatapur and Basantpur community development blocks.[1]

Chhatapur Assembly constituency is part of No. 8 Supaul (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Name[2] Party
1967 Kumbha Narayan Sardar Samyukta Socialist Party
1969
1972 Indian National Congress
1977 Sitaram Paswan Janata Party
1980 Kumbha Narayan Sardar Indian National Congress
1985 Indian National Congress
1990 Yogendra Narayan Sardar Janata Dal
1995 Vishwa Mohan Bharti
2000 Gita Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal
2002^ Gauri Shankar Sardar
2005 Mahendra Narayan Sardar
2005 Vishwa Mohan Bharti Janata Dal
2010 Neeraj Kumar Singh
2015 Bharatiya Janata Party
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Chhatapur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Neeraj Kumar Singh 93,755 46.39
RJD Vipin Kumar Singh 73120 36.18
AIMIM Alam 1990 0.98
BSP Mohammad Matin Ansari 1761 0.87
NOTA None of the above 1219 0.6
NCP Dr. Ranjeet Kumar Jha 951 0.47
PP Bhaskar Kumar Mishra 435 0.22
Majority 20635
Turnout 202088
BJP hold Swing

1990 election

  • Yogendra Nr. Sardar (JD): 57,721 votes[3]
  • Kumbh Nr. Sardar (INC): 33,698 votes

1977 election

  • Sitaram Paswan (Janata Party): 27,709 votes[4]
  • Kumbh Narayan Sardar (INC): 12,296 votes

References

  1. ^ a b "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  2. ^ "Chhatapur Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. ^ "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1990".
  4. ^ "Chhatapur Assembly Constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly Constituency".

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