Ara Assembly constituency

Arrah Assembly constituency is one of 243 assembly seats of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. It is part of Arrah Lok Sabha constituency along with 6 other assembly constituencies named Sandesh, Barhara, Tarari, Jagdishpur, Shahpur and Agiaon (SC).^[1] Since 2015, Arrah has been one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2][3]

Arrah Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 194 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Arrah Assembly constituency in Bhojpur
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Bhojpur
Lok Sabha constituency	Arrah
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent A. P. Singh
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	Mohammad Nawaz Alam,   RJD

Area/Wards

Arrah Assembly constituency comprises:^[4]

• Gram Panchayats: Ganghar, Ramapur Sandia, Piraunta, Sandia, Makhdumpur Dumra, Daulatpur, Bhakura, Jamira, Hasanpura, Gothahula, Karari, Mahuli & Arrah (MC) of Arrah CD Block.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

From 1952 to 1967, Arrah had two assembly seats: Arrah and Arrah Muffasil. Later in 1967, Arrah Muffasil was merged into the Arrah constituency.

Ambika Sharan Singh of the Indian National Congress (INC) had won the Arrah Muffasil Assembly constituency in 1952, 1957 and 1962 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections.^[5]

The list of the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Arrah constituency is as follows:

Year	Name[6]	Party
1952	Rang Bahadur Prasad		Indian National Congress
1957
1962	Sumitra Devi
1967
1969	Ram Awdhesh Singh		Samyukta Socialist Party
1972	Sumitra Devi		Indian National Congress
1977			Janata Party
1980	S. M. Isha		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Bashistha Narain Singh		Janata Dal
1995	Abdul Malik
2000	Amrendra Pratap Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005
2010
2015	Mohammad Nawaz Alam		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Amrendra Pratap Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Arrah^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Amrendra Pratap Singh	71,781	45.05	+0.54
	CPI(ML)L	Quyamuddin Ansari	68,779	43.17	−1.57
	NOTA	N/A
Turnout
Registered electors				[8] Result: BJP GAIN FROM RJD

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Arrah constituency^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Mohammad Nawaz Alam	70,004	44.94
	BJP	Amrendra Pratap Singh	69,338	44.51
	NOTA	N/A	3,203	2.06
Turnout			155,661	51.26
Registered electors			303,897

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See also

• List of Assembly constituencies of Bihar