Samastipur Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Samastipur
Constituency No. 133 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Samastipur
LS constituency	Samastipur
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Akhtarul Islam Sahin
Party	RJD
Elected year	2020

25°51′39″N 85°46′56″E / 25.86083°N 85.78222°E / 25.86083; 85.78222

Samastipur Vidhan Sabha (assembly) constituency is in Samastipur district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 133 Warisnagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Samastipur municipality, Samastipur community development block; and Shahpur Baghauni, Bherokhara, Tajpur, Adharpur and Baghi gram panchayats of Tajpur CD Block.^[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Samastipur will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2]^[3]

Samastipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Name
1957	Yadunandan Sahay^[a]	Indian National Congress
1957	Sahdeo Mahato^[b]
1962	Tej Narain Ishwar^[c]
1962	Sahdeo Mahato^[d]
1967	Rajendra Narain Sharma	Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Rajendra Narain Sharma	Samyukta Socialist Party
1972	Sahdeo Mahato	Indian National Congress (O)
1977	Chandra Shekhar Singh	Janata Party
1980	Karpoori Thakur	Janata Party (Secular)
1985	Ashok Singh	Lokdal
1990		Janata Dal
1995		Janata Dal
2000	Ram Nath Thakur	Janata Dal (United)
2005
2005
2010	Akhtarul Islam Sahin	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015
2020

^by-election

^ Samastipur West
^ Samastipur East
^ Samastipur West
^ Samastipur East

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Akhtarul Islam Shahin	68,507	41.21	13.39
	JD(U)	Ashwamedh Devi	63,793	38.37	38.37
	LJP	Mahendra Pradhan	12,074	7.26	new
	None of the Above	None of the above	1,837	1.11
Turnout
	RJD hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Akhtarul Islam Shahin	82,508	54.60	17.90
	BJP	Renu Kumari	51,428	34.00	34.00
	Independent	Jitandar Chaudhary	3,054	2.00	new
	CPI(ML)L	Surendra Prasad Singh	2,361	1.60	new
Turnout
	RJD hold		Swing

1967 Vidhan Sabha Election

R. N. Sharma (SSP): 20,976 votes^[4]
S. Mahto (INC): 17,038 votes^[5]^[6]^[7]

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.
^ "36 Seats in Bihar to Have Electronic Voting Machines With Paper Trail Facility".
^ "Poll-bound Bihar to get 36 EVMs with paper trail facility". 5 August 2015.
^ "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1967".
^ "Samastipur Election Results since 1977". Travel India Guide. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
^ "95 - Samastipur Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
^ "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1957".