Kurtha Assembly constituency

Assembly constituency in Bihar, India

Kurtha Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 215 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

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

Elected year	2020

Kurtha Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Arwal district of Bihar. It is the part of Jahanabad (Lok Sabha constituency). In Kurtha constituency, Kushwaha, Yadav and Bhumihar voters are descisive in ensuring victory of a candidate, due to their numerical preponderance. In 1969, the Shoshit Samaj Party leader, Jagdev Prasad, who was also called 'Lenin of Bihar', won from this assembly constituency. Satyadev Kushwaha won twice in 2010 and 2015 from here. In 2020, however, he was defeated by Bagi Kumar Verma of Rashtriya Janata Dal.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]
1952	Ramacharan Singh Yadav	Socialist Party
1957	Kameshwar Sharma	Indian National Congress
1962	Ramacharan Singh Yadav	Praja Socialist Party
1967	Jagdeo Prasad	Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Jagdeo Prasad	Shoshit Dal
1972	Ramashray Prasad Singh	Indian National Congress
1977	Nagmani	Shoshit Samaj Dal
1980	Sahdev Prasad Yadav	Janata Party
1985	Nagmani	Independent politician
1990	Mudrika Singh Yadav	Janata Dal
1995	Sahdev Prasad Yadav	Janata Dal
2000	Shiv Bachan Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Suchitra Sinha	Lok Janshakti Party
2005	Suchitra Sinha	Janata Dal
2010	Satyadeo Singh
2015	Satyadeo Singh
2020	Bagi Kumar Verma	Rashtriya Janata Dal

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Kurtha^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RJD	Bagi Kumar Verma	54,227	39.54
	JD(U)	Satyadeo Singh	26,417	19.26
	NOTA	None of the above	1,200	0.87
Majority			27,810	20.28
Turnout			137,144	55.13
	RJD gain from JD(U)		Swing

References

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^ "Member profile" (PDF). Bihar Vidhan Sabha. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 October 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
^ "List of member" (PDF). Bihar Vidhan Sabha. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
^ "Kurtha Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Election Results". Elections.in. Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2023.