Araria Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Araria
Constituency No. 49 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Araria
LS constituency	Araria
Established	1951
Total electors	318,978
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Avidur Rahaman
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2020

Araria Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Araria district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 49 Araria Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Araria (community development block) including Araria nagar parishad.^[1]

Araria Assembly constituency is part of No 9 Araria (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[2]
1952	Ziaur Rahman Hazi	Independent politician
1957	Ziaur Rahman Hazi	Indian National Congress
1962	Balkrishna Jha	Independent politician
1967	Shital Prasad Gupta	Indian National Congress
1969	Shital Prasad Gupta	Indian National Congress
1972	Azam	Samyukta Socialist Party
1977	Srideo Jha	Indian National Congress
1980	Taslimuddin	Janata Party
1985	Halimuddin Ahmed	Indian National Congress
1990	Vinod Kumar Roy	Independent politician
1995	Vijay Kumar Mandal	Bihar People's Party
2000	Vijay Kumar Mandal	Independent politician
2005	Pradeep Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2005	Pradeep Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2009^	Vijay Kumar Mandal	Lok Janshakti Party
2010	Zakir Hussain Khan	Lok Janshakti Party
2015	Avidur Rahman	Indian National Congress
2020	Avidur Rahman	Indian National Congress

^by-election

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Araria
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Avidur Rahman	103,054	54.84
	JD(U)	Shagufta Azim	55,118	29.33
	AIMIM	MD. Rashid Anwer	8,924	4.75
	LJP	Chandra Shekhar Singh Baban	8,203	4.37
	NOTA	None of the above	4,425	2.35
	PP	Amit Anand Jha	1,802	0.96
Majority			47,936
Turnout			1,87,908
Registered electors			318,978	^[3]
	INC hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Araria constituency^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Avidur Rahman	92,667	52.77
	LJP	Ajay Kumar Jha	52,623	29.97
	CPI	Captain S. R. Jha	5,898	3.36
Turnout			175,608	63.20
Registered electors			277,857

1977-2010

In the November 2010 state assembly elections, Zakir Hussain Khan of LJP won the Araria assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Narayan Kumar Jha of BJP. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Pradeep Kumar Singh of BJP defeated Moidur Rahman of Congress in October 2005 and February 2005. Vijay Kumar Mandal, Independent, defeated Moidur Rahman of Congress in 2000. Vijay Kumar Mandal of BPP defeated Durga Das Rathore of BJP in 1995. Vinod Kumar Roy, Independent, defeated Nand Kishore Mandal, Independent, in 1990. Halimuddin Ahmed of Congress defeated Nand Kishore Mandal of LD in 1985. Mohd. Taslimuddin of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) defeated Shrideo Jha of Congress in 1980. Srideo Jha of Congress defeated Deo Narayan Mishra of JP in 1977.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

^ ^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.
^ "Araria Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ "Bihar 2015". Election Commission of India.
^ "Araria election results". Travel India Guide. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
^ "Bihar - Araria". Bihar Assembly Elections Nov 2010 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
^ "130 - Araria Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2011.