Tarapur Assembly constituency
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictMunger
LS constituencyJamui
Established1952
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyJanata Dal (United)
Elected year2021

Tarapur Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of the legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Jamui (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] This assembly constituency contains Tarapur Block. The region is dominated by Kushwahas. In the elections of Mukhiya and the President (Pramukh) of the Block, the probability of the victory of candidates belonging to this caste group remains high. In 2022, the polls were conducted for the membership of Zila Parishad and Mukhiya, and out of ten posts of Mukhia, five were won by the candidate belonging to Kushwaha community. The two posts of member of Zila Parishad also went to candidates from the same community.[2][3]

Overview

Tarapur comprises CD Blocks Asarganj, Tarapur, Tetiha Bamber & Sangrampur; Gram Panchayats Ramankabad (West), Ramankabad (East), Majhgyan, Murade, Gangata, Dariyapur-1 & 2 & Kharagpur (NA) of Kharagpur CD Block.[4] The constituency is dominated by the backward castes and in this constituency, the candidates belonging to Kushwaha caste has been winning consecutively for decades. Veteran politician Shakuni Choudhary was elected from this constituency for six times. He won as an independent candidate for the first time in 1985, and in his last election in 2010, he was defeated by Neeta Chaudhary of Janata Dal (United). Even before Shakuni Chaudhary, Tarini Prasad Singh, who also belonged to Kushwaha caste, was elected from this constituency twice. In 2015, Mewalal Chaudhary, husband of former legislator Neeta Chaudhary contested against Shakuni Chaudhary, who was a candidate of Hindustani Awam Morcha then. Latter was defeated and Mewalal was victorious in 2015 elections. Mewalal Chaudhary was re-elected in 2020 Assembly elections and following his death in 2021, a bypoll was conducted in the constituency in the year 2021. In this bypoll, Rajiv Kumar Singh was declared winner.[5]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year Member[6] Party
1952 Basukinath Rai Indian National Congress
1957
1962 Jaimangal Singh
1967 B. N. Parsant Samyukta Socialist Party
1969 Tarini Prasad Singh Shoshit Dal
1972 Indian National Congress
1977 Kaushalaya Devi Janata Party
1980 Narayan Yadav Communist Party of India
1985 Shakuni Choudhury Independent
1990 Indian National Congress
1995 Samta Party
2000 Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2005
2010 Neeta Choudhary Janata Dal (United)
2015 Mewalal Chaudhary
2020
2021^[7] Rajeev Kumar Singh

^By poll

Election Results

2021 By-election

By-election, 2021: Tarapur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Rajeev Kumar Singh 79,090 46.62 +9.69
RJD Arun Kumar Sah 75,238 44.35 +11.55
LJP Kumar Chandan 5,364 3.16 -3.23
INC Rajesh Kumar Mishra 3,590 2.12 New
Margin of victory
Turnout 1,69,759 51.65
JD(U) hold Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Tarapur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Mewalal Chaudhary 64,468 36.93
RJD Divya Prakash 57,243 32.80
LJP Mina Devi 11,264 6.45
RLSP Jitendra Kumar 5,110 2.93
NOTA None of the above 1,534 0.88
Majority 7,225 4.17
Turnout 1,74,783 55.08
JD(U) hold Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Tarapur[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Mewalal Chaudhary 66,411 45.27
HAM(S) Shakuni Choudhury 54,464 37.13
NOTA None of the above 5,565 3.66
JMM Sanjay Kumar 5,017 3.30
IND Karmvir Kumar Bharathi 3,971 2.61
Majority 11,947 8.14
Turnout 1,52,292 52.66
JD(U) hold Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Tarapur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Neeta Choudhary 44,582 37.42
RJD Shakuni Choudhary 30,704 25.77
INC Sanjay Kumar 18,282 15.35
JMM Raman Kumar 9,167 7.69
JPS Sumitra Devi 4,089 3.43
Majority 13,878 11.65
Turnout 1,19,133 47.35
JD(U) gain from RJD Swing

See also

Sources

References

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  2. ^ "पंचायत चुनाव:जिला परिषद के दोनों व मुखिया के 10 में से पांच पद पर कुशवाहा उम्मीदवार ने जीत हासिल की". Bhaskar.com. Archived from the original on 19 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  3. ^ "बिहार चुनाव : विकास के लिए तरस रहे मुंगेर में जातिगत समीकरण हावी, जानिए... तीनों विधानसभाओं की स्थिति". jagran.com (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  4. ^ "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 from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  5. ^ "Bihar By Elections Result 2021: तारापुर विधानसभा से राजद की हार और जदयू की जीत के यह हैं प्रमुख कारण, एक विश्‍लेषण". Dainik Jagran. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Tarapur Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023.
  7. ^ The Wire (2 November 2021). "Bihar By-Poll: JD(U) Wins Both Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur Seats". Archived from the original on 2 January 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  8. ^ "Bihar Assembly Election 2015". Archived from the original on 15 May 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2020.

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