Belhar Assembly constituency

Belhar is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Banka Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Amarpur, Banka, Katoria and Dhoraiya.^[1]

Belhar
Constituency No. 163 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Banka
Established	1962
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Manoj Yadav
Party	Janata Dal (United)
Elected year	2020

Overview

Belhar comprises CD Blocks Fullidumar, Belhar & Chandan.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1962	Raghvendra Narain Singh[3]		Indian National Congress
1967[4]	Chaturbhuj Prasad Singh		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969[5]
1972	Shakuntala Devi[6]		Indian National Congress
1977	Chaturbhuj Prasad Singh[7]		Janata Party
1980	Chandra Mauleshwar Singh[8]		Independent politician
1985	Siyaram Rai[9]		Indian National Congress
1990	Chandra Mouleshwar Singh[10]
1995[11]	Ramdeo Yadav		Janata Dal
2000[12]			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005[13]
2005	Janardan Manjhi[13]		Janata Dal (United)
2010[14]	Giridhari Yadav
2015[15]
2019^[16]	Ramdeo Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Manoj Yadav[17]		Janata Dal (United)

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Belhar^[17][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Manoj Yadav	73,589	40.16	−4.43
	RJD	Ramdeo Yadav	71,116	38.81
	BSP	Brahmdev Ray	6,127	3.34	+1.78
	Independent	Binod Pandit	5,463	2.98
	LJP	Kumari Archana Yadav	5,312	2.9
	Independent	Swati Kumari	4,026	2.2
	RLSP	Shailendra Kumar Singh	3,242	1.77
	Bhartiya Sablog Party	Bhola Pd Yadav	2,277	1.24
	Independent	Heman Besra	2,089	1.14
	NOTA	None of the above	3,430	1.87	−3.32
Majority			2,473	1.35	−8.92
Turnout			183,245	59.6	+5.18
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Belhar^[15][15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Giridhari Yadav	70,348	44.59
	BJP	Manoj Yadav	54,157	34.32
	JMM	Raj Kishor Prasad Urf Pappu Yadav	10,408	6.6
	Independent	Naresh Kumar Priyadarshi	3,007	1.91
	Independent	Saryug Pandit	2,918	1.85
	BSP	Shiv Kumar Singh	2,463	1.56
	Independent	Pankaj Kumar Singh	1,434	0.91
	Samras Samaj Party	Lakhan Lal Deo	1,422	0.9
	NOTA	None of the above	8,193	5.19
Majority			16,191	10.27
Turnout			157,781	54.42

See also

• List of Assembly constituencies of Bihar