Hajipur Assembly constituency

Hajipur
Constituency No. 123 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Vaishali
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Awadhesh Singh
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020

Vidhan Sabha Constituency in Bihar

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]

Overview

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

Year	Name^[4]
1952	Saryug Prasad	Indian National Congress
1957	Deep Narayan Singh
1962	Deep Narayan Singh
1967	K. P. Singh	Communist Party of India
1969	Motilal Sinha Kanan	Shoshit Dal
1972	Motilal Sinha Kanan	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

2020

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

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

References

^ "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.
^ ^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.
^ "Hajipur Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1977". Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.