Bettiah
Constituency No. 8 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictPaschim Champaran
LS constituency2. Paschim Champaran
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2020

Bettiah Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Bettiah will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[1][2]

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 8. Bettiah Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Bettiah community development block; and Mohaddipur, Majhaulia, Parsa, Bahuarawa, Gudara, Jaukatia, Bakharia, Rulahi, Rajabhar, Karamawa, Lal Saraiya, Ramnagar Bankat, Amawa Majhar, Majharia Sheikh, Ahawar Kuria, Madhopur, Senuwaria and Bishambharpur gram panchayats of Majhaulia CD Block.[3]

Bettiah Assembly constituency is part of 2. Paschim Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency).[3] It was earlier part of Bettiah (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Name[4] Party
1952 Prajapati Mishra Indian National Congress
1952^ Ketaki Devi
1957 Jay Narayan Prasad
Jagannath Pd. Swatantra
1962 Jay Narayan Prasad
1967 H.P. Shahi Independent
1969 Gauri Shankar Pandey Indian National Congress
1972 Krishna Mohan Pandey
1977 Gauri Shankar Pandey
1980
1985
1990 Madan Prasad Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party
1995 Birval Yadava Janata Dal
2000 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005
2010
2015 Madan Mohan Tiwari Indian National Congress
2020 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Bettiah
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Renu Devi 84,496 52.83
INC Madan Mohan Tiwari 66,417 41.53
NOTA None of the above 2,017 1.26
Majority 18,079 11.30
Turnout 1,59,932 56.26
BJP gain from INC Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bettiah
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Madan Mohan Tiwari 66,786 45.26
BJP Renu Devi 64,466 43.69
Independent Sameer Hasan 2,851 1.93
none of the above None Of The Above 1,918 1.30
Majority 2,320 1.57
Turnout 1,47,836 59.35
INC gain from BJP Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bettiah
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Renu Devi 42,010 39.57
Independent Anil Kumar Jha 13,221 12.45
INC Madan Mohan Tiwari 12,499 11.77
LJP Virval Yadav 11,511 10.84
Majority 28,789 27.12
Turnout 1,06,163 55.25
BJP hold Swing

References

  1. ^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India.
  2. ^ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015 - Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System (VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Bettiah Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Retrieved 30 January 2022.

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