Hajipur Assembly constituency

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

Hajipur
Constituency No. 123 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictVaishali
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBJP
AllianceNDA
Elected year2020

Overview

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As per the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 123 Hajipur Assembly constituency is composed of the Hajipur (community development block),[3] while Hajipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 21 Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Name[4] Party
1952 Saryug Prasad Indian National Congress
1957 Deep Narayan Singh
1962
1967 K. P. Singh Communist Party of India
1969 Motilal Sinha Kanan Shoshit Dal
1972 Samyukta Socialist Party
1977 Jagan Nath Prasad Rai Janata Party
1980 Jagan Nath Prasad Rai Indian National Congress
1985 Motilal Sinha Kanan Lok Dal
1990 Jagan Nath Prasad Rai Indian National Congress
1995 Rajendra Rai Janata Dal
2000 Nityanand Rai Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005
2010
2014^ Awadhesh Singh
2015
2020

Election results

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2025

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2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Hajipur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Shiv Chandra Ram
BJP Awadesh Singh
NOTA None of the above
Majority
Turnout
Swing

2020

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Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Hajipur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Awadhesh Singh 85,552 44.55
RJD Deo Kumar Chaurasia 82562 42.99
NOTA None of the Above 1745 0.91
Majority 2990 1.56
Turnout 192033 57.20
Registered electors 335,706 [5]
BJP hold

1977 Vidhan Sabha elections

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  • Jagannath Pd. Yadav (JNP): 39,392 votes[6]
  • Moti Lal Sinha Kanan (INC): 13,154 votes

References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ 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. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  4. ^ "Hajipur Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  5. ^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1977". Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
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