Simri Bakhtiarpur
Constituency No. 76 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
Elected year2020

Simri Bakhtiarpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Saharsa district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 76 Simri Bakhtiarpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Simri-Bakhtiarpur and Salkhua community development blocks; Ghoghepur, Jhara, Aeina, Maheshi North, Maheshi South, Rajanpur, Sirwar Naharwar gram panchayats of Mahishi CD Block.[1]

Simri Bakhtiarpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Khagaria (Lok Sabha constituency) Present MP Mahboob Ali Qaiser and MLA Yusuf Salahuddin.[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year Name[2] Party
1952 Jiyalal Mandal Indian National Congress
1969 Ram Chandra Prasad Samyukta Socialist Party
1972 Mohammad Salahuddin Indian National Congress
1977
1980 Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Indian National Congress
1990 Dinesh Chandra Yadav Janata Dal
1995 Mehboob Ali Kaiser Indian National Congress
2000
2005 Dinesh Chandra Yadav Janata Dal (United)
2005
2009^ Mehboob Ali Kaiser Indian National Congress
2010 Arun Kumar Janata Dal (United)
2015 Dinesh Chandra Yadav
2019^[3] Zafar Alam Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020 Yusuf Salahuddin

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Election results

1977-2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Dr. Arun Kumar of JD(U) won the Simri Bakhtirapur assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Choudhry Mehboob Ali Kaisar of Congress.[4] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. In the October 2005 and February 2005 state assembly elections Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JD(U) defeated Choudhry Mehboob Ali Kaiser of Congress and Zafar Alam of RJD respectively. Choudhry Md. Mehboob Ali Kaiser of Congress defeated Zafar Alam of RJD in 2000 and Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JD in 1995. Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JD defeated Mehboob Ali Kaiser of Congress in 1990. Choudhary Mohammad Salahuddin of Congress defeated Dinesh Chandra Yadav representing Lok Dal in 1985 and representing Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) in 1980, and Ayodhya Prasad Yadav, Independent, in 1977.[5]

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Simri Bakhtirapur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Yusuf Salahuddin 75684 38.48
LJP Sanjay Kumar Singh 6992 3.54
VIP Mukesh Sahani 73925 37.81
NOTA None of the above 1408 0.72
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing

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. ^ "Sonbarsa Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. ^ Zee News (25 October 2019). "By-election results 2019: List of winners in 51 Assembly and Satara, Samastipur". Archived from the original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Bihar – Simri bakhtiarpur". Bihar Assembly Elections Nov 2010 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
  5. ^ "119 - Simri-Bakhtiarpur Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 January 2011.

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