Chanpatia Assembly constituency

Chanpatia Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Chanpatia
Constituency No. 7 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Paschim Champaran
Lok Sabha constituency	2. Paschim Champaran
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Umakant Singh
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 7. Chanpatia Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chanpatia community development block; and Chanayan Bandh, Mahana Gani, Ratanmala, Sarisawa, Barawa Semaraghat, Harpur Garawa, Dumari, Mahanwa Rampurwa, Dhokarahan, Baithania Bhanachak and Nautan Khurd gram panchayats of Majhaulia CD Block.^[1]

Chanpatia Assembly constituency is part of 2. Paschim Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1] It was earlier part of Bettiah (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1957	Ketaki Devi		Indian National Congress
1962	Pramod Kumar Mishra
1967
1969	Vir Singh		Samyukta Socialist Party
1972	Umesh Prasad Verma		Indian National Congress
1977	Vir Singh		Janata Party
1980	Birbal Sharma		Communist Party of India
1985
1990	Krishna Kumar Mishra		Janata Dal
1995	Birbal Sharma		Communist Party of India
2000	Krishna Kumar Mishra		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005	Satish Chandra Dubey
2005
2010	Chandra Mohan Rai
2015	Prakash Rai
2020	Umakant Singh

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Chanpatia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Umakant Singh	83,828	47.69
	INC	Abhishek Ranjan	70359	40.03
	Independent	Manish Kashyap	9239	5.26
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	BJP hold

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chanpatia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Prakash Rai	61,304	39.04
	JD(U)	N. N. Sahi	60,840	38.74
	CPI	Om Prakash Kranti	10,136	6.45
	Independent	Manish Kumar Prasad	6,446	4.11
	Independent	Basant Singh	5,254	3.35
	none of the above	None Of The Above	4,506	2.87
Majority			464	0.30
Turnout			1,57,113	63.84
	BJP hold		Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chanpatia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Chandra Mohan Rai	44,835	40.41
	BSP	Ejaj Hussain	21,423	19.31
	INC	Tribhuvan Prasad Sharma	9,131	8.23
	LJP	Shekh Sharfuddin	7,623	6.87
	CPI	Om Prakash Shrivastwa	7,441	6.71
	Independent	Veer Mahto	4,934	4.45
Majority			23,412	21.1
Turnout			1,10,954	55.77
	BJP hold		Swing