Hajipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Hajipur Vidhan Sabha constituency 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
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Hajipur
Location in Bihar
Coordinates: 25°41′00″N 85°12′44″E
Country India
StateBihar
DistrictVaishali
Constituency No.123
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency21. Hajipur (SC)
Electoral systemFirst past the post

Overview

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

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election 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 Jagannath Prasad Yadav Janata Party
1980 Jagannath Prasad Rai Indian National Congress
1985 Motilal Sinha Kanan Lok Dal
1990 Jagannath Prasad Rai Indian National Congress
1995 Rajendra Rai Janata Dal
2000 Nityanand Rai Bharatiya Janata Party
Feb 2005
Oct 2005
2010
2014 ^ Awadhesh Singh
2015
2020

Election Results

2020 Vidhan Sabha Elections

  • Awadhesh Singh (Bharatiya Janata Party) : 85,351 votes
  • Dev Kumar Chaurasia (RJD) : 82,103

1977 Vidhan Sabha Elections

  • Jagannath Pd. Yadav (JNP) : 39,392 votes [5]
  • Moti Lal Sinha Kanan (INC) : 13,154

References

  1. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". 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. "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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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