Jehanabad Assembly constituency

Jehanabad Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Jehanabad district and South Bihar region of Bihar. It is the part of Jahanabad (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Jehanabad Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 216 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictJehanabad
LS constituency36 Jehanabad
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyRashtriya Janata Dal
Elected year2020

Overview

There are 2,86,098 voters in the constituency of which 1,50,106 are male, 1,35,984 female and 8 others.[2] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Jehanabad assembly constituency is one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearMember[4]Party
1952Sheobhajan SinghSocialist Party
1967Mahabir ChaudharyIndian National Congress
1977Ram Chander YadavJanata Party
1980Tara GuptaIndian National Congress
1985Syed Asgar HussainIndian National Congress
1990Hari Lal Yadav[5]Independent politician
1995Mudrika Singh YadavJanata Dal
2000Munni Lal YadavRashtriya Janata Dal
2005Sachidanand Yadav
2005
2010Abhiram SharmaJanata Dal
2015Mudrika Singh YadavRashtriya Janata Dal
2018^Suday Yadav
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Jehanabad
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RJDSuday Yadav 75,030 47.03
JD(U)Krishnanandan Prasad Verma4112825.78
LJPIndu Devi Kashyap2417615.15
NOTANone of the above23881.5
Majority
Turnout
gain fromSwing

References