Banka Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Bihar legislative assembly in India

Banka Assembly constituency
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Banka
Established	1951
Reservation	None

Elected year	2020

Banka is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Banka Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Amarpur, Katoria, Belhar and Dhoraiya.^[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Banka was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Overview

Banka comprises CD Blocks Barahat & Banka.^[5]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[6]
1952	Raghavendra Narain Singh	Indian National Congress
1957	Bindhyabasini Devi	Indian National Congress
1962	Braj Mohan Singh	Swatantra Party
1963^	Bindhyabasini Devi	Indian National Congress
1967	B.L. Mandal	Jana Sangh
1969	Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh	Indian National Congress
1972	Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh	Indian National Congress
1977	Sindheshwar Prasad Singh	Janata Party
1980	Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh	Indian National Congress
1985	Chandrashekhar Singh	Indian National Congress
1986^	Janardan Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party
1990	Ramnarayan Mandal	Bharatiya Janata Party
1995	Javed Iqbal Ansari	Janata Dal
2000	Ramnarayan Mandal	Bharatiya Janata Party
2005	Javed Iqbal Ansari	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ramnarayan Mandal	Bharatiya Janata Party
2010	Javed Iqbal Ansari	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2014^	Ramnarayan Mandal	Bharatiya Janata Party
2015
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Banka
Party		Candidate	Votes
	BJP	Ramnarayan Mandal
	RLSP	Kaushal Kishore Singh
	PP	Kashikant Singh
	RJD	Javed Iqbal Ansari
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Banka^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Ramnarayan Mandal	52,379	39.23
	RJD	Zafrul Hoda	48,649	36.43
Turnout			133,525	56.65
Registered electors			235,691

References

^ "Banka Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
^ "Women power voter growth". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
^ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015– Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
^ "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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
^ "Banka Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022.
^ "Bihar Assembly Election 2015". Archived from the original on 15 May 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2020.