Muzaffarpur Assembly constituency

Muzaffarpur is an assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Muzaffarpur was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[1][2]

Muzaffarpur
Constituency No. 94 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictMuzaffarpur
Established1957
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyIndian National Congress
Elected year2020

Extent

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As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 94 Muzaffarpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Muzaffarpur municipal corporation and Bhagwanpur, Madhubani, Majhauli Khetal and Patahi gram panchayats of Musahari community development block.[3]

Muzaffarpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Muzaffarpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Name[4] Party
1957 Mahamaya Prasad Sinha Praja Socialist Party
1962 Devnandan Sahay Indian National Congress
1967 M. L. Gupta
1969 Ramdev Sharma Communist Party of India
1972
1977 Manjay Lal Janata Party
1980 Raghunath Pandey Indian National Congress
1985
1990
1995 Bijendra Chaudhary Janata Dal
2000 Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Independent politician
2005
2010 Suresh Kumar Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party
2015
2020 Bijendra Chaudhary Indian National Congress

Election results

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2020

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2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Muzaffarpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Bijendra Chaudhary 81,871 48.16
BJP Suresh Kumar Sharma 75,545 44.44
The Plurals Party Pallavi Sinha 3,522 2.07
Jantantrik Vikas Party Ram Babu Sah 1,552 0.91
JAP(L) Ravi Atal 1,552 0.91
NOTA None of the above 1,245 0.73
Majority 6,326
INC gain from BJP Swing

References

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  1. ^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
  2. ^ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Muzaffarpur Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
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