Banka is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Banka Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Amarpur, Katoria, Belhar and Dhoraiya.[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Banka was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[2][3][4]
| Banka | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Banka |
| Established | 1951 |
| Reservation | None |
| Elected year | 2020 |
Overview
editBanka comprises CD Blocks Barahat & Banka.[5]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
edit| Year | Name[6] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Raghavendra Narain Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Bindhyabasini Devi | ||
| 1962 | Braj Mohan Singh | Swatantra Party | |
| 1963^ | Bindhyabasini Devi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | B.L. Mandal | Jana Sangh | |
| 1969 | Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Sindheshwar Prasad Singh | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh | Indian National Congress | |
| 1985 | Chandrashekhar Singh | ||
| 1986^ | Janardan Yadav | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1990 | Ramnarayan Mandal | ||
| 1995 | Javed Iqbal Ansari | Janata Dal | |
| 2000 | Ramnarayan Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2005 | Javed Iqbal Ansari | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2005 | Ramnarayan Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2010 | Javed Iqbal Ansari | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2014^ | Ramnarayan Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2015 | |||
| 2020 | |||
Election results
edit2020
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ramnarayan Mandal | ||||
| RLSP | Kaushal Kishore Singh | ||||
| PP | Kashikant Singh | ||||
| RJD | Javed Iqbal Ansari | ||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| gain from | Swing | ||||
2015
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Ramnarayan Mandal | 52,379 | 39.23 | ||
| RJD | Zafrul Hoda | 48,649 | 36.43 | ||
| Turnout | 133,525 | 56.65 | |||
| Registered electors | 235,691 | ||||
References
edit- ^ "Banka Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
- ^ "Women power voter growth". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- ^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015– Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
- ^ "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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
- ^ "Banka Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India. Archived from the original on 12 February 2022.
- ^ "Bihar Assembly Election 2015". Archived from the original on 15 May 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
External links
edit- "Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.