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Samastipur Vidhan Sabha (assembly) constituency is in Samastipur district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Samastipur Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 133 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Bihar
Member of Legislative Assembly
Elected year	2020

Samastipur
Assembly constituency
Samastipur Location in Bihar
Coordinates: 25°51′39″N 85°46′56″E
Country	India
State	Bihar
District	Samastipur
Constituency No.	133
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	23. Samastipur (SC)

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 133 Warisnagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Samastipur municipality, Samastipur community development block; and Shahpur Baghauni, Bherokhara, Tajpur, Adharpur and Baghi gram panchayats of Tajpur CD Block.[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Samastipur will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[2][3]

Samastipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of Vidhan Sabha

• 1957, Samastipur East : Sahdeo Mahto (INC) [4]
• 1957, Samastipur West : Jadunandan Sahay (INC)
• 1962, Samastipur East : Sahdeo Mahto (INC)
• 1962, Samastipur West : Tej Narain Ishwar (INC)
• 1967 : R.N. Sharma (SSP) : 20,976 S. Mahto M INC 17038
• 1980 : Karpoori Thakur (Janata Party - Secular)
• 1985 :
• 1990 :
• 2000 : Ashok Singh of RJD
• Feb 2005 : Shahid Ahmed of RJD
• Oct 2005 : Ramnath Thakur of JD(U)
• 2010 : Akhtarul Islam Sahin (Rashtriya Janata Dal)
• 2015 : Akhtarul Islam Sahin (RJD)

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Samastipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Akhtarul Islam Shahin	68,507	41.21	13.39
	JD(U)	Ashwamedh Devi	63,793	38.37	38.37
	LJP	Mahendra Pradhan	12,074	7.26	new
	None of the Above	None of the above	1,837	1.11
Turnout
	RJD hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Samastipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Akhtarul Islam Shahin	82,508	54.60	17.90
	BJP	Renu Kumari	51,428	34.00	34.00
	Independent	Jitandar Chaudhary	3,054	2.00	new
	CPI(ML)L	Surendra Prasad Singh	2,361	1.60	new
Turnout
	RJD hold		Swing

1967 Vidhan Sabha Election

• R.N. Sharma (SSP) : 20,976 votes [5]
• S. Mahto (INC) : 17,038

1977-2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Akhtarul Islam Sahin of RJD won the Samstipur seat defeating his nearest rival Ramnath Thakur of Janata Dal (United)|JD(U). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ramnath Thakur of JD(U) defeated Nizam Ahmed of RJD in October 2005, Shahid Ahmed of RJD in February 2005 and Ashok Singh of RJD in 2000. Ashok Singh of Janata Dal defeated Shahid Hushan Khan of BPP in 1995 and Visheshwar Rai of Indian National Congress in 1990. Ashok Singh of Lok Dal defeated Jai Narain Rai of Congress in 1985. Karpoori Thakur of Janata Party (SC) defeated Chandra Shekhar Verma of Congress(I) in 1980. Chandra Sekhar Singh of Janata Party defeated Ram Chandra Rai of Congress in 1977.[6][7]

References

External links

• "Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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