Baniapur Assembly constituency

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

Baniapur
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kedar Nath Singh
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 115 Baniapur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Baniapur (except Karhi, Manikpura and Lauwa Kala gram panchayats) and Mashrakh community development blocks.^[1]

Baniapur Assembly constituency is part of No. 19 Maharajganj (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Vishwanath Mishra		Indian National Congress
1957	Uma Pandey
1962
1967
1969	Ramanand Mishra		Samyukta Socialist Party
1972	Uma Pandey		Indian National Congress
1977	Ramakant Pandey		Janata Party
1980	Uma Pandey		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Ram Bahadur Rai		Janata Party
1995			Janata Dal
2000	Manoranjan Singh		Independent politician
2005			Lok Janshakti Party
2005			Janata Dal (United)
2010	Kedar Nath Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Baniapur^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Kedar Nath Singh	65,194	38.74	−7.13
	VIP	Virendra Kumar Ojha	37,405	22.23
	LJP	Tarkeshwar Singh	53,082	34.90
	Independent	Sumit Kumar Gupta	12,485	7.42
	Independent	Pushpa Kumari	2,395	1.42
	Independent	Sudhir Kumar	2,157	1.28
	Independent	Dablu Kumar	2,124	1.26
	Independent	Narayan Pd. Yadaw	2,039	1.21
	Janta Dal Rashtravadi	Anil Kumar Ram	1,882	1.12
	BSP	Nawal Kishor Kushwaha	1,726	1.03	+0.06
	NOTA	None of the above	4,657	2.77	−1.58
Majority			27,789	16.51	+6.04
Turnout			168,297	52.84	+2.27
	RJD hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Baniapur^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Kedar Nath Singh	69,851	45.87
	BJP	Tarkeshwar Singh	53,900	35.4
	Independent	Virendra Kumar Ojha	13,545	8.9
	BSP	Bikrma Ram	1,481	0.97
	NOTA	None of the above	6,628	4.35
Majority			15,951	10.47
Turnout			152,266	50.57
	Bhartiya New Sanskar Krantikari Party	Dr. Gopal Prasad	564	0.37