Obra, Bihar Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Obra
Constituency No. 220 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Division	Magadh division
District	Aurangabad
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rishi Yadav
Party	Rashtriya Janata Dal
Elected year	2020

Obra Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Aurangabad district in the Indian state of Bihar. It comes under Karakat Lok Sabha constituency. Obra Vidhan Sabha is constituted of two blocks of Aurangabad district viz. Daudnagar and Obra. As per the estimates of the 2011 census, out of a total 432861 population, 84.49% is rural and 15.51% is urban population. The Scheduled castes (SC) and Scheduled tribes (ST) ratio is 22.05 and 0.04, respectively out of total population. As per the voter list of 2019, there are 305747 electorates and 336 polling stations in this constituency. Voter turnout was 48.8% in 2019 Lok Sabha elections and 55.06% in 2020 Bihar assembly election.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[1]
1952	Padarath Singh	Socialist Party
1962	Dilkeshwar Ram	Indian National Congress
1967	Raghuvansh Kumar Singh	Indian National Congress
1969	Padarath Singh	Praja Socialist Party
1972	Narain Singh	Indian National Congress
1977	Ram Vilas Singh	Janata Party
1980	Virendra Prasad Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
1985	Ram Vilas Singh	Lokdal
1990	Ram Vilas Singh	Janata Dal
1995	Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation
2000	Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation
2005	Satayanarayan Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Satayanarayan Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2010	Somprakash Singh	Independent
2015	Birendra Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Rishi Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal

Assembly Elections 2020^[2]

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Obra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Sunil Kumar	25,234	14.36
	LJP	Prakash Chandra	40,994	23.34
	RJD	Rishi Kumar	63,662	36.24
	RLSP	Ajay Kumar	19,879	11.32
	JAP(L)	Sujeet Kumar	4,066	2.31
	Independent	Pramod Singh Chandravanshi	7,736	4.4
	Swaraj Party(Loktantrik)	Som Prakash	7,035	4.0
	NOTA	None of the above	3,793	2.16
Majority			22,668	12.9
Turnout			1,75,665	55.06
	RJD hold		Swing	{{{swing}}}
	gain from		Swing	{{{swing}}}

References

^ "Obra Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ "Obra Election Results 2020: ओबरा सीट पर RJD का जलवा कायम, 22668 मतों से जीते ऋषि कुमार". आज तक (in Hindi). 10 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2022.