Benipur Assembly constituency

Benipur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district of Bihar, India.

Benipur
Constituency No. 80 - for the State Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Bihar[1]
District	Darbhanga
Established	1967
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Binay Kumar Choudhary
Party	JDU
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2025

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 80 Benipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Benipur community development block;Baheri CD Block;Biraul CD Block.^[2]

Benipur (Nagar Parisad (Navtoliya Chairman Mateen Mustafa) & Deputy Chairman's Md Nazim Amin (Assembly constituency) is part of No. 14 Darbhanga (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[3]	Party
1967	Bhup Narayan Jha		Indian National Congress
1969	Hari Nath Mishra		Lok Tantrik Congress
1972			Indian National Congress
1977-2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Gopal Jee Thakur		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Sunil Choudhary		Janata Dal (United)
2020	Binay Kumar Choudhary

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Benipur^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Binay Kumar Choudhary	61,416	37.58
	INC	Mithilesh Kumar Chaudhary	54,826	33.55
	LJP	Kamal Ram Vinod Jha	17,616	10.78
	Independent	Ram Kumar Jha	6,221	3.81
	RLSP	Rajeev Kumar	4,641	2.84
	Independent	Sanjeet Kumar	3,741	2.29
	Independent	Saguni Ray	3,082	1.89
	Wazib Adhikar Party	Nathuni Ram	1,929	1.18
	JAP(L)	Rajesh Kumar Mishra	1,576	0.96
	NOTA	None of the above	4,621	2.83	−0.28
Majority			6,590	4.03	−13.81
Turnout			163,428	56.51	+0.89
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Benipur^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Sunil Chaudhary	69,511	46.88
	BJP	Gopal Jee Thakur	43,068	29.04
	Independent	Kamalramvinod Jha "Kamal Seth"	10,154	6.85
	Independent	Vinod Kumar Jha	6,061	4.09
	Independent	Siyalakhan Yadav	2,459	1.66
	Independent	Sunil Kumar Jha "Moti Babu"	2,340	1.58
	CPI	Ram Naresh Roy	2,299	1.55
	BSP	Laxman Ram	1,685	1.14
	Independent	Vinoda Nand Jha	1,385	0.93
	Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	Krishna Kant Jha	1,350	0.91
	NOTA	None of the above	4,614	3.11
Majority			26,443	17.84
Turnout			148,283	55.62

2010

Bihar Assembly election, 2010: Benipur^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Gopal Jee Thakur	43,222	40.33
	RJD	Hare Krishna Yadav	29,265	27.31
Majority			13,957
Turnout			107,175	47.27
	BJP hold		Swing