Bachhwara Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Bachhwara Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 142 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Begusarai
LS constituency	Begusarai Lok Sabha
Established	1951
Total electors	2,97,646 (2020)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Surendra Mehata
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020

Bachhwara Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Begusarai district in the Indian state of Bihar.

INC (7 times) (43.75%)

CPI (4 times) (25%)

SSP (2 Times) (12.5%)

Others (3 Times) (18.75%)

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 142 Bachhwara Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Bachhwara, Mansoorchak and Bhagwanpur community development blocks.^[1]

Bachhwara Assembly constituency is part of No. 24 Begusarai (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[2]
1952	Mithun Choudhary	Indian National Congress
1957	Vaidyanath Prasad Singh	Praja Socialist Party
1962	Girish Kumar Singh	Indian National Congress
1967	Vaidyanath Prasad Singh	Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Bhuvneshwar Rai	Indian National Congress
1972	Ramdeo Rai
1977
1980		Indian National Congress
1985	Ayodhya Prasad Singh	Communist Party of India
1990	Awadhesh Rai
1995	Awadhesh Rai
2000	Uttam Kumar Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ramdeo Rai	Independent politician
2005	Ramdeo Rai	Indian National Congress
2010	Awadhesh Rai	Communist Party of India
2015	Ramdeo Rai	Indian National Congress
2020	Surendra Mehata	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bachhwara
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Surendra Mehata	54,738	30.21%
	CPI	Awadhesh Kumar Rai	54,254	29.94%
	Independent	Shiv Prakash Garib Das	39,878	22.01%
	NOTA	None of the above	945	0.52%
Majority			484	0.27
Turnout			181192	60.87
Registered electors			297,646	^[3]
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	0.27

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bachhwara constituency^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Ramdeo Rai	73,983	45.83
	LJP	Arvind Kumar Singh	37,052	22.95
	CPI	Awadhesh Kumar Rai	28,539	17.68
	Independent	Subhash Kumar Ishwar	7,296	4.52
Turnout			161,440	59.39
Registered electors			271,815
	INC gain from CPI		Swing	23%

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.
^ "Bachwara Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ "Bihar 2015". Election Commission of India.