Banka Assembly constituency
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictBanka
Established1952
ReservationNone
Elected year2020

Banka is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Banka Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Amarpur, Katoria, Belhar and Dhoraiya.[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Banka was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[2][3][4]

Overview

Banka comprises CD Blocks Barahat & Banka.[5]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Name[6] Party
1952 Raghavendra Narain Singh Indian National Congress
1957 Bindhyabasini Devi
1962 Braj Mohan Singh Swatantra Party
1963^ Bindhyabasini Devi Indian National Congress
1967 B.L. Mandal Jana Sangh
1969 Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh Indian National Congress
1972
1977 Sindheshwar Prasad Singh Janata Party
1980 Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh Indian National Congress
1985 Chandrashekhar Singh
1986^ Janardan Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party
1990 Ramnarayan Mandal
1995 Javed Iqbal Ansari Janata Dal
2000 Ramnarayan Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party
2005 Javed Iqbal Ansari Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Ramnarayan Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party
2010 Javed Iqbal Ansari Rashtriya Janata Dal
2014^ Ramnarayan Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party
2015
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Banka
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ramnarayan Mandal
RLSP Kaushal Kishore Singh
PP Kashikant Singh
RJD Javed Iqbal Ansari
NOTA None of the above
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Banka[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ramnarayan Mandal 52,379 39.23
RJD Zafrul Hoda 48,649 36.43
Turnout 133,525 56.65
Registered electors 235,691

References

  1. ^ "Banka Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Women power voter growth". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. ^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  4. ^ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015– Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  5. ^ "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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  6. ^ "Banka Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Bihar Assembly Election 2015". Archived from the original on 15 May 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2020.

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