Alinagar Assembly constituency

Alinagar is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Alinagar
Constituency No. 81 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Darbhanga
Lok Sabha constituency	Darbhanga
Established	2008
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Mishri Lal Yadav
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	Abdul Bari Siddiqui,   RJD

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 81 Alinagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Alinagar, Tardih, Motipur Panchayat "Earlier Antour Panchayat (Antour, Motipur, Andauli) and Ghanshyampur community development blocks.^[1] Alinagar assembly is dominated by Brahmin, Yadav and Muslim voters. They play vital role in elections.

Alinagar Assembly constituency is part of No. 14 Darbhanga (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

History of Alinagar block

Earlier Alnagar was under Benipur block, since administrative block was far from public reach and due to limited availability of transportation for the people of the village in Alinagar, it was difficult for the public to access the administrative block easily. Then there was a formation of Alinagar block which is under Benipur division. Then have crafted new panchayat and dissolved some of the old panchayat and village under new block.

New panchayat and village are - Alinagar, Tardih, Motipur Panchayat "Earlier Antour Panchayat (Antour, Motipur, Andauli) and Ghanshyampur

While forming Alinagar block, they have dissolved Antour panchayat which was having [Antour], Motipur, Balha and Nandapati village in it. Now Antour is part of Motipur panchayat which is new and came into force after dissolving Antour panchayat. Balha and Nandapati is part of Benipur division.

After formation of new block Alinagar, it becomes difficult for people in the village Antour to access the Administrative block in Alinagar since it is in the neighbourhood of Benipur division. And the nearest railway station is Benipur which is .3 km from Antour village and administrative blocks of Benipur are 2 km from village Antour and new administrative block for Antour which is Alinagar is 10 km from village Antour in the opposite direction of the main market which is in Benipur.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Abdul Bari Siddiqui		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015
2020	Mishri Lal Yadav		Vikassheel Insaan Party
			Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Alinagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	VIP	Mishri Lal Yadav	61,082	38.62
	RJD	Binod Mishra	57,981	36.66
	JAP(L)	Sanjay Kumar Singh	9,737	6.16
	LJP	Raj Kumar Jha	8,850	5.60
	Independent	Fakira Paswan	4,468	2.83
	NOTA	None of the above	2,941	1.86
Majority			3,101
Turnout
Registered electors				[3]
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Alinagar^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Abdul Bari Siddiqui	67,461	48.22
	BJP	Mishri Lal Yadav	54,001	38.60
Turnout			139,898	55.62
Registered electors			251,508