Gaighat Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Gaighat
Constituency No. 88 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Muzaffarpur
Established	1967
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Niranjan Roy
Party	Rashtriya Janata Dal
Elected year	2020

Gaighat (earlier called Gaighatti) is an assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 88 Gaighat Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Gaighat and Bandra community development blocks; Katra, Sonpur, Berai South, Dhanaur, Madhepura and Shivdaspur gram panchayats of Katra CD Block.^[1]

Gaighat Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Muzaffarpur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[2]
1967	Nitishwar Prasad Singh	Indian National Congress
1969
1972
1977	Vinodanand Singh	Janata Party
1980	Jitendra Prasad Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
1985	Virendra Kumar Singh	Indian National Congress
1990	Maheshwar Prasad Yadav	Independent politician
1995	Maheshwar Prasad Yadav	Janata Dal
2000	Virendra Kumar Singh	Janata Dal
2005	Maheshwar Prasad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Maheshwar Prasad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2010	Veena Devi	Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Maheshwar Prasad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Niranjan Roy	Rashtriya Janata Dal

Villages in Gaighat bolak

#	Villages	Administrative Division	Population
1	Arazi Pirhari	Gaighat	4
2	Asia	Gaighat	1,928
3	Bagha Khal urf Nabipur	Gaighat	5,338
4	Bahadurpur	Gaighat	1,438
5	Bakhri	Gaighat	2,673
6	Balha	Gaighat	1,263
7	Baraila	Gaighat	2,467
8	Barhmotra urf Parmanandpur	Gaighat	1,199
9	Baruari urf Jagdishpur Baruari	Gaighat	5,134
10	Bela Gopi	Gaighat	1,325
11	Belaur Nidhi urf BelaurThana	Gaighat	3,118
12	Berwa urf Ibrahimpur Pirahari	Gaighat	8,157
13	Bhagwatpur	Gaighat	2,427
14	Bharampur Sital	Gaighat	239
15	Bhorpura Garib	Gaighat	372
16	Bhusra	Gaighat	5,874
17	Bihari urf Bhatgawan	Gaighat	2,276
18	Bitwara urf Bahadurpur	Gaighat	1,782
19	Boaridih	Gaighat	6,306
20	Chauth urf Jamalpur Kodai	Gaighat	1,146
21	Chhitwara	Gaighat	275
22	Chiraila	Gaighat	659
23	Dahila Patsawan	Gaighat	5,733
24	Dhubauli Lakhmi	Gaighat	987
25	Dhubauli Piar Bhela	Gaighat	2,284
26	Dhubauli Sube	Gaighat	3,647
27	Dumrawan	Gaighat	459
28	Ghyasuddinpur	Gaighat	1,341
29	Godanpatti	Gaighat	850
30	Harkhauli	Gaighat	825
31	Harpur urfKamalpurBhadwaraDih	Gaighat	2,092
32	Hasna Gaddi	Gaighat	2,082
33	Jahangirpur	Gaighat	1,609
34	Jamalpur Kodai	Gaighat	1,880
35	Janta Tok	Gaighat	8,906
36	Jarang	Gaighat	21,145
37	Jaya urf Jia	Gaighat	4,170
38	Kakrahia	Gaighat	2,029
39	Kalyanpur urf BishunpurKalyan	Gaighat	1,540
40	Kamarthu	Gaighat	5,348
41	Kanta Pirauchha	Gaighat	25,953
42	Keotas urf Keotsa	Gaighat	4,488
43	Khajuri	Gaighat	1,609
44	Kothia urf Madhaul	Gaighat	3,656
45	Kumhrauli	Gaighat	2,643
46	Kutubpur urf Rosara	Gaighat	1,122
47	Lachhman Nagar	Gaighat	5,283
48	Ladaura	Gaighat	5,763
49	Lodi Yusufpur Ladi	Gaighat	809
50	Lohbandra	Gaighat	1,600
51	Loma urf Loama	Gaighat	7,086
52	Madhura Patti urf Manorathpatti	Gaighat	1,160
53	Mahamadpur Sura	Gaighat	3,833
54	Maheshwara	Gaighat	2,898
55	Mahwara	Gaighat	1,596
56	Majithi urf Basatpur Majithi	Gaighat	6,778
57	Makrandpur urf Makrampur	Gaighat	3,129
58	Manipur Dahila	Gaighat	3,378
59	Misrauli	Gaighat	1,969
60	Paga	Gaighat	3,408
61	Pakri urf Rasnajagan	Gaighat	1,297
62	Patsawan Donimaknawan	Gaighat	44
63	Raghopur	Gaighat	2,056
64	Raila Narayan	Gaighat	715
65	Ram Patti	Gaighat	2,134
66	Ramauli	Gaighat	2,065
67	Ramnagar	Gaighat	7,464
68	Rona	Gaighat	1,365
69	Santha	Gaighat	485
70	Shakarwara Nur	Gaighat	2,624
71	Shakarwara Sabik	Gaighat	2,172
72	Sinia	Gaighat	461
73	Subas Kesho	Gaighat	2,570
74	Subas Kunaimai SubasGangwasubas	Gaighat	1,779
75	Susta	Gaighat	9,186
76	Tal Boari	Gaighat	4,623
77	TarukTolia urf JagdishpurBarua	Gaighat	1,193
78	Tejauli Buzurg	Gaighat	1,771
79	Tharma	Gaighat	2,115
80	Thika Pahi	Gaighat	272
81	Tirsatha	Gaighat	2,840

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Gaighat
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Niranjan Rai	59,778	{{{percentage}}}	{{{change}}}
	JD(U)	Maheshwar Prasad Yadav	52,212
	LJP	Komal Singh	36,851
	JP	Sudhir Kumar Jha	31,019
	Independent	Subhash Chaudhary	2,9606
	NOTA	None of the above	2,277
		Rest of the candidates	~20,000
Majority			7,566
Turnout
	RJD hold		Swing

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.
^ "Gaighat Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.