Barauli, Bihar Assembly constituency

26°24′04″N 84°34′48″E Barauli Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Gopalganj district in the Indian state of Bihar.^[1]

Barauli
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Overview

In the district and a part of the Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency named Gopalganj, Barauli is a legislative assembly constituency of Bihar. The Barauli assembly segment is populated by 2,39,638 people who hold the adult franchise to vote in the constituency. There are 1,26,458 male and 1,13,177 female electors in the constituency. As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 100 Barauli Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Manjha community development block; Mohadipur Pakaria, Dewapur, Sonbarsa, Batardeh, Sarfara, Nawada Chand, Kahla, Moghal Biraicha, Kalyanpur, Sarean Narendra, Belsand, Madhopur, Mahammadpur Nilami, Bagheji, Bishunpura, Larauli gram panchayats and Barauli (NA) of Barauli CD Block.^[2]

Barauli Assembly constituency is part of No. 17 Gopalganj (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[3]	Party
1952	Abdul Ghafoor		Indian National Congress
1957
1962	Gorakh Rai
1967	B. Rai[4]		Independent politician
1969	Bijul Singh		Communist Party of India
1972	Braj Kishore Narayan Singh		Indian National Congress
1977	Abdul Ghafoor		Indian National Congress
1980			Indian National Congress
1985	Adnan Khan[5]		Indian National Congress
1990	Dhruv Nath Chaudhary		Independent politician
1995	Md. Nematullah		Janata Dal
2000	Rampravesh Rai		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005
2010
2015	Md. Nematullah[6]		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Rampravesh Rai		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Barauli^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rampravesh Rai	81,956	46.55	+6.43
	RJD	Reyazul Haque Urf Raju	67,801	38.51	−1.94
	Independent	Rudal Mahato	5,037	2.86
	Independent	Ramesh Kumar Prasad	4,927	2.8
	BSP	Shah Alam	4,856	2.76	+0.87
	Independent	Wasim Akram	1,920	1.09
	Independent	Chit Lal Sah	1,790	1.02
	NOTA	None of the above	676	0.38	−0.27
Majority			14,155	8.04	+7.71
Turnout			176,066	58.68	−0.55
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Barauli^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Md Nematullah	61,690	40.45
	BJP	Rampravesh Rai	61,186	40.12
	Garib Janta Dal (Secular)	Anirudh Prasad Urf Sadhu Yadav	3,914	2.57
	Independent	Mukesh Kumar Rai	3,819	2.5
	BSP	Neyaz Ahmad	2,887	1.89
	SP	Rajesh Kumar Singh	2,770	1.82
	Independent	Dharmendra Kumar Gupta	2,531	1.66
	Independent	Yogendra Bhagat	2,464	1.62
	CPI	Manager Singh	2,311	1.52
	Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	Dinesh Kumar	1,853	1.22
	NOTA	None of the above	988	0.65
Majority			504	0.33
Turnout			152,510	59.23