Ara Vidhan Sabha constituency

Arrah Assembly constituency is one of 243 assembly seats of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. It is part of Arrah Lok Sabha constituency along with 6 other assembly constituencies named Sandesh, Barhara, Tarari, Jagdishpur, Shahpur and Agiaon (SC).[1] Since 2015, Arrah has been one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[2][3]

Arrah Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 194 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency Details
CountryIndia
StateBihar
DistrictBhojpur
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLAAmrendra Pratap Singh
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2020

Area/ Wards

Arrah Assembly constituency comprises:[4]

  • Gram Panchayats: Ganghar, Ramapur Sandia, Piraunta, Sandia, Makhdumpur Dumra, Daulatpur, Bhakura, Jamira, Hasanpura, Gothahula, Karari, Mahuli & Arrah (M) of Arrah CD Block.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

From 1952 to 1967, Arrah had two assembly seats: Arrah and Arrah Muffasil. Later in 1967, Arrah Muffasil was merged into the Arrah constituency.

Ambika Sharan Singh of the Indian National Congress (INC) had won the Arrah Muffasil Assembly constituency in 1952, 1957 and 1962 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections.[5]

The list of the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Arrah constituency is as follows:

Year Name[6] Party
1952 Rang Bahadur Prasad Indian National Congress
1957
1962 Sumitra Devi
1967
1969 Ram Awdhesh Singh Samyukta Socialist Party
1972 Sumitra Devi Indian National Congress
1977 Janata Party
1980 S. M. Isha Indian National Congress
1985
1990 Bashistha Narain Singh Janata Dal
1995 Abdul Malik
2000 Amrendra Pratap Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005
2010
2015 Mohammad Nawaz Alam Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020 Amrendra Pratap Singh Bharatiya Janata Party

Elections
Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Arrah constituency[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Amrendra Pratap Singh 71,781 45.05 +0.54
CPI(ML)L Quyamuddin Ansari 68,779 43.17 -1.57
NOTA N/A
Turnout
Registered electors [8]
2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Arrah constituency[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Mohammad Nawaz Alam 70,004 44.94
BJP Amrendra Pratap Singh 69,338 44.51
NOTA N/A 3,203 2.06
Turnout 155,661 51.26
Registered electors 303,897

See also

Sources

References
  1. "Arrah Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  2. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
  3. "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
  4. "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 20 December 2013.
  5. "DPACO (1961) - Archive Delimitation Orders - Election Commission of India". Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  6. "Arrah Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  7. "Arrah 2020". oneindia.
  8. "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  9. "Bihar 2015". Election Commission of India.

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