Barhara Assembly constituency

Barhara Assembly constituency is one of 243 legislative assembly seats of the legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Arrah lok sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz Sandesh, Arrah, Agiaon (SC), Tarari, Jagdishpur and Shahpur.^[1]

Barhara Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 193 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Bhojpur
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Raghvendra Pratap Singh
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020

Area/ Wards

The Barhara Assembly constituency comprises:^[2]

• CD Block Barhara
• Gram Panchayats: Ijri, Sundarpur Barja, Agarsanda, Baghipakar, Basantpur, Dhamar & Khajuria of Arrah CD Block
• Gram Panchayats: Khesrahiya, Mathurapur, Rajapur, Daulatpur, Chanda, Gidha, Birampur & Kayam Nagar of the Koilwar CD Block.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The Barhara Assembly constituency was created in 1951. The list of the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Barhara constituency is as follows:

Year	Member[3]	Party
1952	Ram Vilash Singh		Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad
1957-1967: Constituency did not exit
1967	Ambika Sharan Singh		Indian National Congress
1969	Mahanth Mahadeva Nand Giri		Independent politician
1972	Ram Vilash Singh		Indian National Congress
1977	Ambika Sharan Singh		Janata Party
1980	Ramjee Prasad Singh		Indian National Congress
1985	Raghwendra Pratap Singh		Janata Party
1990			Janata Dal
1995
2000			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Feb	Asha Devi		Janata Dal (United)
2005 Oct
2010	Raghwendra Pratap Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015	Saroj Yadav
2020	Raghwendra Pratap Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Barhara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Raghwendra Pratap Singh	76,182	46.15
	RJD	Saroj Yadav	71,209	43.13
	Independent	Asha Devi	7,203	4.36
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,784	1.69
Majority			4,973	3.02
Turnout			1,65,087	52.59
Registered electors			3,13,857

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Barhara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Saroj Yadav	65,001	44.34
	BJP	Asha Devi	51,693	35.26
	SP	Raghwendra Pratap Singh	13,638	9.30
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,916	1.99
Majority			13,308	9.08
Turnout			1,46,612	51.27
Registered electors			2,85,928

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Barhara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Raghwendra Pratap Singh	46,102	41.52
	JD(U)	Asha Devi	45,019	40.54
	INC	Bhai Brahmeshwer	6,084	5.48
	CPI(ML)L	Rajiv Ranjan	3,672	3.31
Majority			1,083	0.98
Turnout			1,11,049	47.66
Registered electors			2,32,971