Madhubani Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Madhubani
Constituency No. 36 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Madhubani
LS constituency	6. Madhubani
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Samir Kumar Mahaseth
Party	Rashtriya Janata Dal
Elected year	2020

Madhubani Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Madhubani district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Madhubani will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[1]^[2]

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 36 Madhubani Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Madhubani municipality; Basuara, Bhachhi, Bhavara, Lachhminagar, Sonaur, Maksuda, Khajuri, Shambhuar, Sundarpur, Bhitthi, Balia gram panchayats of Madhubani community development block; and Pandaul CD Block.^[3]

Madhubani Assembly constituency is part of No. 6 Madhubani (Lok Sabha constituency).^[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[4]
1952	Hari Nath Mishra	Indian National Congress
1957	Ram Krishna Mahato	Independent
1962	Braj Bihari Sharma	Indian National Congress
1967	Shafiqullah Ansari	Indian National Congress
1969	Surya Narayan Singh	Praja Socialist Party
1972	Surya Narayan Singh	Samyukta Socialist Party
1977	Digambar Thakur	Janata Party
1980	Raj Kumar Mahaseth	Janata Party (Secular)
1985	Padma Chaubey	Indian National Congress
1990	Raj Kumar Mahaseth	Independent
1995	Raj Kumar Mahaseth	Janata Dal
2000	Ramdev Mahato	Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005
2010
2015	Samir Kumar Mahaseth	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Samir Kumar Mahaseth	Rashtriya Janata Dal

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Madhubani
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RJD	Samir Kumar Mahaseth	71,332	38.00
	VIP	Suman Kumar Mahaseth	64,518	34.37
	LJP	Arvind Kumar Purbey	15,818	8.43
	Independent	Ramdev Mahato	8,247	4.39
	Samajwadi Janata Dal (Democratic)	Amanullah Khan	7,344	3.91
	Independent	Mihir Kumar Jha	4,866	2.59
	NOTA	None of the above	4,181	2.23
	PP	Madhubala Giri	2,804	1.49
		Rest of the candidates	~8,000	4.25
Majority			6,814
Turnout
	RJD hold		Swing

References

^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
^ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
^ ^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.
^ "Madhubani Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.