| Samastipur | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 133 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Samastipur |
| LS constituency | Samastipur |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent Akhtarul Islam Sahin | |
| Party | RJD |
| Elected year | 2020 |
25°51′39″N 85°46′56″E / 25.86083°N 85.78222°E Samastipur Vidhan Sabha (assembly) constituency is in Samastipur district in the Indian state of Bihar.
As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 133 Warisnagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Samastipur municipality, Samastipur community development block; and Shahpur Baghauni, Bherokhara, Tajpur, Adharpur and Baghi gram panchayats of Tajpur CD Block.[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Samastipur will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[2][3]
Samastipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Yadunandan Sahay[a] | Indian National Congress | |
| Sahdeo Mahto[b] | |||
| 1962 | Tej Narain Ishwar[c] | ||
| Sahdeo Mahto[d] | |||
| 1967 | Rajendra Narain Sharma | Samyukta Socialist Party | |
| 1969 | |||
| 1972 | Sahdeo Mahto | Indian National Congress (O) | |
| 1977 | Chandra Shekhar Singh | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Karpoori Thakur | Janata Party (Secular) | |
| 1985 | Ashok Singh | Lokdal | |
| 1990 | Janata Dal | ||
| 1995 | |||
| 2000 | Ram Nath Thakur | Janata Dal (United) | |
| 2005 | |||
| 2005 | |||
| 2010 | Akhtarul Islam Sahin | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2015 | |||
| 2020 | |||
^ - bypoll
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RJD | Akhtarul Islam Shahin | 68,507 | 41.21 |  13.39
| |
| JD(U) | Ashwamedh Devi | 63,793 | 38.37 |  38.37
| |
| LJP | Mahendra Pradhan | 12,074 | 7.26 | new | |
| None of the Above | None of the above | 1,837 | 1.11 | ||
| Turnout | |||||
| RJD hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RJD | Akhtarul Islam Shahin | 82,508 | 54.60 | 17.90
| |
| BJP | Renu Kumari | 51,428 | 34.00 | 34.00
| |
| Independent | Jitandar Chaudhary | 3,054 | 2.00 | new | |
| CPI(ML)L | Surendra Prasad Singh | 2,361 | 1.60 | new | |
| Turnout | |||||
| RJD hold | Swing | ||||
