Motihari
Constituency No. 19 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictPurvi Champaran
LS constituency3. Purvi Champaran
ReservationNone
Elected year2020

26°39′N 84°55′E / 26.650°N 84.917°E / 26.650; 84.917

Motihari Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purvi Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Motihari 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, 19. Motihari Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Motihari community development block including Motihari nagar parishad and Lautnaha notified area and Piprakothi CD block.[3]

Motihari Assembly constituency is part of 3. Purvi Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency).[3] It was earlier part of Motihari (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year Name[4] Party
1952 Shakuntala Devi Indian National Congress
1957 Bigoo Ram
1962 Shakuntala Devi
1967 Chandrika Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969 Ram Sevak Prasad Jaiswal Indian National Congress
1972 Prabhawati Gupta
1977
1980
1985 Triveni Tiwari Communist Party of India
1990
1995
2000 Rama Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Pramod Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010
2015
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Motihari
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Pramod Kumar
RJD Om Prakash Choudhary
NOTA None of the above
Majority
Turnout
BJP hold Swing

References

  1. ^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
  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. ^ "Motihari Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.

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