Nalanda Assembly constituency

Legislative assembly in Bihar, India

Nalanda Assembly constituency
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Nalanda
Established	1977
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Shravan Kumar
Party	Janata Dal (United)
Elected year	2020

Nalanda Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a part of Nalanda Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Rajgir, Harnaut, Islampur, Hilsa, Asthawan and Bihar Sharif.^[1]

Overview

Nalanda comprises CD Blocks Noorsarai & Ben; Gram Panchayats Nirpur, Bargaon & Surajpur of Silao CD Block; Gram Panchayats Biyavani, Maghrconstituenciesa, Dumrawan, Pachauri, Ranabigha & Meghi Nagwan of Bihar CD Block; Gram Panchayats Barnausa, Meyar, Bhui, Pilkhi, Goraur, Nahub, Pathraura & Lodipur of Rajgir CD Block.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member^[3]
1977	Shyam Sundar Prasad	Indian National Congress
1980	Ram Naresh Singh	Independent politician
1985	Shyam Sunder Singh	Indian National Congress
1990	Ram Naresh Singh	Independent politician
1995	Shrawan Kumar	Samata Party
2000		Samata Party
2005		Janata Dal
2005
2010
2015
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Nalanda
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Shrawon Kumar	66,066	38.97
	Jantantrik Vikas Party	Kaushalendra Kumar	49,989	29.48
	INC	Gunjan Patel	17,293	10.20
	LJP	Ram Keshwar Prasad	10,951	6.46
	NOTA	None of the above	1,316	0.78
Majority			16,077	9.49
Turnout
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Nalanda^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Shrawon Kumar	72,598	46.66
	BJP	Kaushalendra Kumar	53596	36.50
Majority			2,996
	JD(U) hold		Swing	10.66

2010

Bihar assembly elections, 2010: Nalanda^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%
JD(U)	Shrawon Kumar	61532	49.78
RJD	Arun Kumar	37030	30.63
JD(U) hold		Swing

Sources

Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1951
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1957
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1962
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1967
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1969
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1972
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1977
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1980
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1985
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1990
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1995
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 2000
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 2005
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 2010

References

^ "Nalanda Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
^ "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 20 December 2013.
^ "Nalanda Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ Bihar Assembly Election 2015
^ Bihar Assembly Election 2010