Araria Assembly constituency

For other places with same/similar name, see Araria (disambiguation).

Araria Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Araria district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Araria
Constituency No. 49 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Araria
Lok Sabha constituency	Araria
Established	1951
Total electors	318,978 [needs update]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Avidur Rahaman
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 49 Araria Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Araria (community development block) including Araria nagar parishad.^[1]

Araria Assembly constituency is part of No 9 Araria (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Ziaur Rahman Hazi		Independent politician
1957			Indian National Congress
1962	Balkrishna Jha		Independent politician
1967	Shital Prasad Gupta		Indian National Congress
1969
1972	Azam		Samyukta Socialist Party
1977	Srideo Jha		Indian National Congress
1980	Taslimuddin		Janata Party
1985	Halimuddin Ahmed		Indian National Congress
1990	Vinod Kumar Roy		Independent politician
1995	Vijay Kumar Mandal		Bihar People's Party
2000			Independent politician
2005	Pradeep Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2009^	Vijay Kumar Mandal		Lok Janshakti Party
2010	Zakir Hussain Khan
2015	Avidur Rahman		Indian National Congress
2020

^by-election

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Araria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Avidur Rahman	103,054	54.84
	JD(U)	Shagufta Azim	55,118	29.33
	AIMIM	MD. Rashid Anwer	8,924	4.75
	LJP	Chandra Shekhar Singh Baban	8,203	4.37
	NOTA	None of the above	4,425	2.35
	PP	Amit Anand Jha	1,802	0.96
Majority			47,936
Turnout			1,87,908
Registered electors			318,978	[3]
	INC hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Araria constituency^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Avidur Rahman	92,667	52.77
	LJP	Ajay Kumar Jha	52,623	29.97
	CPI	Captain S. R. Jha	5,898	3.36
Turnout			175,608	63.20
Registered electors			277,857

1977-2010

In the November 2010 state assembly elections, Zakir Hussain Khan of LJP won the Araria assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Narayan Kumar Jha of BJP. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Pradeep Kumar Singh of BJP defeated Moidur Rahman of Congress in October 2005 and February 2005. Vijay Kumar Mandal, Independent, defeated Moidur Rahman of Congress in 2000. Vijay Kumar Mandal of BPP defeated Durga Das Rathore of BJP in 1995. Vinod Kumar Roy, Independent, defeated Nand Kishore Mandal, Independent, in 1990. Halimuddin Ahmed of Congress defeated Nand Kishore Mandal of LD in 1985. Mohd. Taslimuddin of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) defeated Shrideo Jha of Congress in 1980. Srideo Jha of Congress defeated Deo Narayan Mishra of JP in 1977.^[5][6][7]