Sonpur Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Sonpur
Constituency No. 122 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Saran
Established	1951

Elected year	2020

Sonpur Assembly constituency, often spelt Sonepur, is in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar.^[1]

Ram Sundar Das, sitting MLA from Sonpur 1977–1980, served as Bihar's Chief Minister briefly in 1979.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 122 Sonpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Sonpur and Dighwara C.D. blocks.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Sonpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 20 Saran (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2] It was earlier part of Chapra (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Vidhan Sabha

Year	Member
1951	Jagadish Sharma	Indian National Congress
1957	Ram Binod Singh	Independent
1962	Sheo Bachan Singh	Communist Party of India
1967	Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav	Indian National Congress
1969
1972
1977	Ram Sunder Das	Janata Party
1980	Lalu Prasad Yadav	Janata Party
1985	Lalu Prasad Yadav	Lok Dal
1990	Raj Kumar Roy	Janata Dal
1995	Raj Kumar Roy	Janata Dal
2000	Vinay Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2005	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2010	Vinay Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Sonpur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RJD	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav	73,247
	BJP	Vinay Kumar Singh	66,561
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors				^[5]
	RJD hold		Swing

2015

Ramanuj Prasad Yadav (RJD): 86,082 votes
Vinay Kumar Singh (BJP): 49,686 votes

1980 Vidhan Sabha

Lalu Prasad Yadav (Janata-Secular): 45,041 votes^[6]
Jawahar Prasad Singh (Indira Congress): 35,874 votes
Ram Sunder Das (Janata Party): 10,396 votes

1977 Vidhan Sabha

Ram Sunder Das (JNP): 40,747 votes^[7]
Rameshwar Prasad Rai (IND): 15,411 votes

References

^ "Roll of the dais Sonepur Assembly constituency". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016.
^ ^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.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ "Sonepur Assembly Constituency Election Result - Legislative Assembly Constituency".
^ "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1977".