Valmiki Nagar
Constituency No. 1 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictPaschim Champaran
LS constituencyValmiki Nagar
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Dhirendra Pratap Singh alias Rinku Singh
PartyJanata Dal (United)
Elected year2020

Valmiki Nagar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. Dhirendra Pratap Singh alias Rinku Singh of JDU is the MLA.

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 1 Valmiki Nagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Piprasi, Madhubani, Thakrahan and Bhitaha community development blocks; and Valmiki Nagar, Laxmipur Rampurwa, Santpur Soharia, Champapur Gonauli, Naurangia Dardari, Mahuawa Katharawa, Harnatand, Balua Chhatraul, Dewaria Taruanwa, Bharachhi, Belahawa Madanpur, Bakuli Panchgwa, Binwalia Bodhser, Nayagaon Rampur, Mangalpur Ausani, Borawal Narawal, Semra Katkuiya, Yamunapur Tadwalia, Jimari Nautanawa and Dholbajwa Laxmipur gram panchayats of Sidhaw CD Block.[1]

Valmiki Nagar Assembly constituency is part of No. 1 Valmiki Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Name Party
Till 2008 : See Dhanaha
2010 Rajesh Singh Janata Dal
2015 Dhirendra Pratap Singh Independent
2020 Janata Dal

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Valmiki Nagar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Dhirendra Pratap Singh
alias Rinku Singh 		74,906 38.32
INC Rajesh Singh 53321 27.28
JAP(L) Sumant Kumar 18409 9.42
BSP Baidyanath Prasad 14498 7.42
LJP Mahendra Kumar Bharti 6612 3.38 New
NOTA None of the above 8090 4.14
PP Gaurav Jha 2863 1.46 New
Majority 21585 11.04
Turnout 195489 58.9
Registered electors 331,874 [2]
JD(U) gain from Independent Politician Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Valmiki Nagar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Dhirendra Pratap Singh 66,860 36.17
INC Irshad Hussain 33,280 18.01
RLSP Surendra Prasad 32,855 17.78
SP Rajesh Singh 11,472 6.21
BSP Altaf Hussain 11,097 6.00
Independent Dip Narayan Mahato 8,355 4.52
NOTA None of the above 6,767 3.66
Majority 33,580 18.16
Turnout 1,84,960 62.63
Independent gain from JD(U) Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Valmiki Nagar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Rajesh Singh 42,289 29.43
RJD Mukesh Kumar Kushwaha 27,618 19.22
BSP Dheerendra Pratap Singh 20,886 14.53
INC Irshad Hussain 17,747 12.35
Independent Deep Narayan Mahato 14,047 9.78
JPS Manoj Kumar Singh 8358 5.82
Independent Saket Kumar Pathak 4428 3.08
Independent Ramayan Chaudhary 1647 1.15
Independent Ram Naresh Sah 1610 1.12
NCP Shashi Bhusan Sahay 1334 0.93
Independent Pramod Sah 1114 0.78
BJJD Ramashankar Prasad 1042 0.73
Independent Insad Ali 835 0.58
Independent Pahawari Yadav 743 0.52
Majority 14,611 10.21
Turnout 1,43,698 59.77
JD(U) win (new seat)

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. ^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

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