Amour Assembly constituency

Amour is an assembly constituency in Purnia district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Amour
Constituency No. 56 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Lok Sabha constituency	Kishanganj
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Akhtarul Iman
Party	AIMIM
Alliance	None
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	Abdul Zalil Mastan   INC

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 56 Amour Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Amour and Baisa community development blocks.^[1]

Amour Assembly constituency is part of No 10 Kishanganj (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year	Name[7]	Party
1952	Mohammad Tahir		Indian National Congress
1957	Mohammad Ismail		Independent politician
1962	Mohammad Alijan		Indian National Congress
1967	Hasibur Rahman		Praja Socialist Party
1969
1972			Independent politician
1977	Chandrashekhar Jha		Janata Party
1980	Moijuddin Minshi		Indian National Congress
1985	Abdul Zalil Mastan		Independent politician
1990			Indian National Congress
1995	Muzaffar Hussain		Samajwadi Party
1997	Saba Zafar		Independent politician
2000	Abdul Zalil Mastan		Indian National Congress
2005
2005
2010	Saba Zafar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Abdul Zalil Mastan		Indian National Congress
2020	Akhtarul Iman		All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen

Election Results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Amour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIMIM	Akhtarul Iman	94,459	51.17
	JD(U)	Saba Zafar	41,944	22.72
	INC	Abdul Zalil Mastan	31,863	17.26
	JAP(L)	Kumar Gupta	3,164	1.71
	LJP	Manoj Kumar Nishad	919	0.5
Majority			52,515	29.2%
Turnout			184,606	60.0
Registered electors				[8]
	AIMIM gain from INC		Swing

2015

General Election to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar was held in 5 phases. Amour Assembly constituency had its polling in the last phase on 5 November 2015 and the result was declared on 8 November 2015.^[9]

Candidates:

A total of 14 candidates filed their nominations, including one woman candidate. Out of those 14, one candidate withdraw his name from the candidature. 13 candidates contested the election, including the women candidate. Out of 13 candidates, 11 candidates' deposits were forfeited.^[9]

Electors and voters:

Total number of 2,80,910 electors (1,49,626 male and 1,31,274 female) were registered. Out of those, only 1,69,281 (60.26%) voters turned out to cast their votes in 275 polling stations.^[9]

Result:

Abdul Jalil Mastan of the Indian National Congress Party won the election by a margin of 51,997 votes (31.30% of total valid votes). The total votes cast in his favour was 1,00,135. Runner-up Saba Zafar of Bharatiya Janata Party received 48,138 votes.^[9]

1977-2010

In the November 2010 state assembly elections, Saba Zafar of BJP won the Amour assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Abdul Jalil Mastan of Congress.^[10] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Abdul Jalil Mastan of Congress defeated Saba Jafar representing SP in October 2005, contesting as an Independent in February 2005 and representing RJD in 2000. Muzaffar Hussain of SP defeated Abdul Jalil Mastan of Congress in 1995. A. Jalil of Congress defeated Muzaffar Hussain of ICS (SCS). Jalil, Independent, defeated Chandra Sekhar Jha of JP in 1985. M. Moijuddin Munshi of Congress defeated Nazmuddin of Janata Party (Secular – Raj Narain). Chandra Sekhar Jha of JP defeated Md. Moijuddin Munshi of Congress.^[11]