Nathnagar Assembly constituency

Nathnagar Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 158 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Bhagalpur
Established	1967
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ali Ashraf Siddiqui
Party	Rashtriya Janata Dal
Alliance	Mahagatbandhan
Elected year	2020

Assembly constituency in Bihar

Nathnagar Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Gopalpur, Pirpainti, Kahalgaon, Bhagalpur and Bihpur.^[1]

Overview

Nathnagar comprises CD Blocks Nathnagar & Sabour; Gram Panchayats Puraini North, Puraini South, Baluachak Puraini, Sanholi, Baijani, Khiribandh, Jamani, Saino, Bhawanipur Desri, Chandapur, Jagdishpur, Sonuchak-Puraini, Imampur, Shajangi cense town & Habibpur Nagar Panchayat of Jagdishpur CD Block.^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[3]
1967	K. Jha	Indian National Congress
1969	Chunchun Prasad Yadav	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972	Chunchun Prasad Yadav	Indian National Congress
1977	Sudha Srivastava	Janata Party
1980	Talib Ansari	Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Chunchun Prasad Yadav	Lokdal
1990	Sudha Srivastava	Janata Dal
1995	Lutfur Rahman	Janata Dal
2000	Sudha Srivastava	Samata Party
2005		Janata Dal (United)
2005
2010	Ajay Kumar Mandal
2015	Ajay Kumar Mandal
2019^^[4]	Lakshmikant Mandal
2020	Ali Ashraf Siddiqui	Rashtriya Janata Dal

^by-election

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Nathnagar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RJD	Ali Ashraf Siddiqui	78,832	40.41
	JD(U)	Lakshmi Kant Mandal	71,076	36.44
	LJP	Amar Nath Prasad (Amar Singh Kushwaha)	14,715	7.54
	BSP	Ashok Kumar	9,659	4.95
		Rest of the candidates + NOTA (None of the Above)	~20,000	10.00
Majority			7,756
Turnout
Registered electors				^[5]
	RJD gain from JD(U)		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Nathnagar^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Ajay Kumar Mandal	66,485	39.16
	LJP	Amar Nath Prasad	58,660	34.67
Turnout			169,787	56.47
Registered electors			300,682

References

^ "Bhagalpur Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
^ "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 20 December 2013.
^ "Nathnagar Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ Zee News (25 October 2019). "By-election results 2019: List of winners in 51 Assembly and Satara, Samastipur". Archived from the original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ Bihar Assembly Election 2015