Kochadhaman Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Kochadhaman
Constituency No. 55 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Kishanganj
Established	2008
Reservation	None

Elected year	2020

26°07′55″N 87°50′02″E / 26.13194°N 87.83389°E / 26.13194; 87.83389

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

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 55 Kochadhamin Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kochadhamin community development block; Belwa, Gachhpara, Chakla, Mehangaon, Daula and Pichhla gram panchayats of Kishanganj CD Block.^[1]

Kochadhaman Assembly constituency is part of No 10 Kishanganj (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Following is the list of Members of Legislative Assembly from Kochadhaman Vidhan Sabha.^[2]^[3]

Year	Name^[4]
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Akhtarul Iman	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2014^	Mujahid Alam	Janata Dal (United)
2015	Mujahid Alam	Janata Dal (United)
2020	Muhammad Izhar Asfi	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen

^denotes by-election

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Kochadhaman
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIMIM	Muhammad Izhar Asfi	79893	49.45%	23.31
	JD(U)	Mujahid Alam	43750	27.08%	12.21
	RJD	Shahid Alam	26134	16.18%
	LJP	Habibur Rahman	1606	0.99%
	NOTA	None of the above	2953	1.83%
Majority			36143	22.37%
Turnout			161568	64.59%
	AIMIM gain from JD(U)		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kochadhaman
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
JD(U)	Mujahid Alam	55929	39.29%	12
AIMIM	Akhtarul Iman	37086	26.14%	10
BJP	Abdur Rahman	34,895	26.14%
JD(U) gain from JD(U)		Swing

2014 by-election

Bihar Assembly election, 2014 by-election: Kochadhaman
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Mujahid Alam	41,288	32.65
	INC	Sadique Samdani	31,050	24.55
	BJP	Abdur Rahman	28,924	22.87
	RJD	Muhammad Intekhab Alam	22,818	18.04
Majority
Turnout

2010

Bihar Assembly election, 2010: Kochadhaman
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RJD	Akhtarul Iman	37376	36.27%
	JD(U)	Mujahid Alam	28351	27.52%
	INC	Sadique Samdani	9861	9.57%
Majority			9025	8.75%
Turnout

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.
^ "mujahid alam vidhan sabha profile" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 June 2019.
^ "15th bihar vidhan sabha members web archive" (PDF). web archive. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 June 2019.
^ "Kochadhaman Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.