Chapra, Bihar Assembly constituency

For the constituency in West Bengal, see Chapra, West Bengal Assembly constituency. For disambiguation, see Chapra.

Chapra (pronounced Chhapra) is an assembly constituency in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Chapra was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[1][2]

Chapra, Bihar
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Location in Bihar
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Saran
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent C. N. Gupta
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020

Overview

Chhapra assembly seat has a unique distinction of electing either a Rajput or Yadav since 1967 belonging to various parties. The dominating caste, after delimitation is Vaishya which accounts for 65,000 of the 2.89 lakh voters. The vaishya community has 10-12% population in Chhapra.

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 118 Chapra Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chhapra municipality and Naini, Fakuli, Karinga, Sadha, Mouna, Tenua and Barhara Mahaji gram panchayats of Chapra community development block; Rivilganj CD Block.^[3]

Chapra Assembly constituency is part of No. 20 Saran (Lok Sabha constituency).^[3] It was earlier part of Chapra (Lok Sabha constituency). Chhapra assembly seat had a unique distinction of electing either a Rajput or Yadav since 1965 till 2014 belonging to various parties.^[4] Randhir Kumar Singh (RJD) won the by-poll from Chhapra in 2014.^[5][6] First time, a non-Yadav non-Rajput Dr. C. N. Gupta (BJP) won from assembly seat in 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.^[7][8][9]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[10]	Party
1957	Prabhunath Singh		Indian National Congress
	Jaglal Chaudhary
1962	Sundri Devi
1967	Uday Pratap N Singh		Jana Sangh
1969	Janak Yadav		Praja Socialist Party
1972			Indian National Congress
1977	Mithlesh Kumar Singh		Janata Party
1980	Janak Yadav
1985			Independent politician
1990	Udit Rai
1995			Janata Dal
2000			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ram Parvash Rai		Janata Dal (United)
2005
2010	Janardan Singh Sigriwal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2014^	Randhir Kumar Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015	C. N. Gupta		Bharatiya Janata Party
2020
2025

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Khesari Lal Yadav
	BJP	Chhoti Kumari
	JSP	Jai Prakash Singh
	Independent	Rakhi Gupta
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors
	gain from		Swing

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. C. N. Gupta	75,710	44.97%
	RJD	Randhir Kumar Singh	68,939	40.95%
	Independent	Sunil Kumar	6,062	3.60%
	Independent	Sanjeev Kumar Singh	3,744	2.22%
	Independent	Subhash Ray	3,193	1.90%
	BSP	Manoj Mahato	2,909	1.73%
	Independent	Dr. Vijaya Rani Singh	1,166	0.69%
	Independent	Birendra Sah	1,022	0.61%
	Rashtriya Manav Sewa Party	Dharmendra Pandey	958	0.57%
	Independent	Vinod Kumar Tiwari	712	0.42%
	Independent	Umeshwar Singh	498	0.30%
	Independent	Yogendra Ray	399	0.24%
	Independent	Mohammad Asgar Ali	373	0.22%
	Pragatisheel Janta Party	Manoranjan Kumar Shrivastva	282	0.17%
	Independent	Parmeshwar Kumar	238	0.14%
	Bharatiya Momin Front	Mohammad Salim	236	0.14%
Majority			6,771	4.02%
Turnout			168,361	50.99%

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dr. C. N. Gupta	71,646	45.27%
	RJD	Randhir Kumar Singh	60,267	38.08%
	Independent	Udit Rai	5,707	3.61%
	Independent	Kanhaiya Singh	5,176	3.27%
	BSP	Subhash Rai	3,969	2.51%
	Independent	Santosh Kumar Mishra	2,837	1.79%
	Independent	Vinod Kumar Tiwary	1,092	0.69%
	AAHPTY	Rajnarayan Gupta	772	0.49%
	Independent	Kaushal Kishor Singh	659	0.42%
	Independent	Lalan Prasad	621	0.39%
	Independent	Ramjee Singh	572	0.36%
	Independent	Ram Nath Rai	558	0.35%
	Independent	Parmeshwar Kumar	504	0.32%
	Bharatiya Momin Front	Manauar Hussain	379	0.24%
Majority			11,379	7.19%
Turnout			158,247	51.87%

2014 bypoll

Bihar Assembly election, 2010: Chapra, Bihar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Randhir Kumar Singh
	Independent	C. N. Gupta
	BJP	Kanhaiya Singh
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors				[11]
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Janardan Singh Sigriwal	61,045	53.36%
	RJD	Pramendra Ranjan Singh	25,174	22.00%
	Independent	Subhash Ray	7,626	6.67%
	INC	Anil Kumar Singh	4,322	3.78%
	BSP	Rajeshnath Prasad	2,063	1.80%
	Independent	Siyaram Singh	1,306	1.14%
	Independent	Praveen Kumar Alias Piku Yadav	1,297	1.13%
	JD(S)	Rambabu Rai	1,189	1.04%
	Independent	Randhir Rai	1,178	1.03%
	NCP	Amita Devi	1,059	0.93%
	Independent	Ramjee Singh	1,048	0.92%
	Independent	Arif Khan	958	0.84%
	JP(S)	Jitendra Kumar Singh	956	0.84%
	Independent	Tarkeshwar Singh	892	0.78%
	Independent	Mukesh Kumar Singh	840	0.73%
	Independent	Gyani Kumar Sharma	839	0.73%
	Independent	Indrajit Rai	765	0.67%
	Independent	Rajnarayan Gupta	525	0.46%
	Independent	Amiteshwar Sahay	369	0.32%
	Independent	Sunita Kumari	352	0.31%
	BED	Rajendra Mahto	339	0.30%
	SP	Sandeep Kumar	264	0.23%
Majority			35,871	31.36%
Turnout			114,406	44.9%

Oct 2005

October 2005 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Ram Parvash Rai	40,371	39.78%
	RJD	Udit Rai	36,743	36.21%
	LJP	Rambabu Ray	7,771	7.66%
	Independent	Subhash Rai	6,029	5.94%
	Independent	Shankar Choubey	2,340	2.30%
	BSP	Jitendra Kumar	2,143	2.11%
	Independent	Satish Kumar	1,241	1.22%
	Independent	Brajesh Kumar	1,021	1.00%
	IJP	Ajay Singh	777	0.76%
	Independent	Bishan Rai	719	0.71%
	SP	Pradeep Kumar	573	0.56%
	Independent	Raj Narayan	521	0.51%
	Independent	Laxman Rai	466	0.46%
Majority			3,628	3.57%
Turnout			101,561

Feb 2005

February 2005 Bihar Legislative Assembly election : Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Ram Parvash Rai	33,776	36.88%
	RJD	Udit Rai	31,527	34.41%
	Independent	Subhash Rai	4,602	5.03%
	Independent	Laxman Rai	2,180	2.38%
	Independent	Ramjee Singh	1,466	1.60%
	BSP	Harendar Rai	1,387	1.51%
	Independent	Vinod Singh	1,112	1.21%
	Independent	Arun Kumar	1,099	1.20%
	AD	Ashok Kumar	1,085	1.18%
	Independent	Jitendra Kumar	684	0.75%
	Bharatiya Momin Front	Md Beraj	657	0.72%
	Independent	Brajesh Kumar	617	0.67%
	Independent	Sanjay Rai	585	0.64%
	SP	Birendra Kumar	563	0.61%
	Independent	Rabish Chandra	534	0.58%
	Independent	Nutan Devi	487	0.53%
	Independent	Raju Rai	464	0.51%
	Independent	Nand Kishore	327	0.36%
Majority			2,249	2.46%
Turnout			91,562

2000

2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Udit Rai	76,749	52.89%
	BJP	Rambabu Ray	54,030	37.23%
	Independent	Jai Narayan Singh Solanki	7,486	5.16%
	INC	Jitendra Kr Singh	2,014	1.39%
	CPI	Surendra Prasad Yadav	1,975	1.36%
	BSP	Chandra Bhushan Prasad	838	0.58%
	Independent	Sheodas Singh	417	0.29%
	Independent	Laxmi Narayan Yadav	358	0.25%
	BJC	Purushotam Singh	308	0.21%
	Independent	Birendra Kumar Yadav	301	0.21%
	Independent	Brajesh Kumar	167	0.12%
	Ajeya Bharat Party	Rabindra Singh	111	0.08%
	Independent	Brahmdeo Narain Gyani	86	0.06%
	Independent	Bhagat Singh	76	0.05%
	Independent	Harendra Ray	64	0.04%
	AD	Muneshwar Prasad	55	0.04%
	Independent	Abhay Kumar Singh	45	0.03%
	Independent	Birendra Prasad	37	0.03%
Majority			22,719	15.66%
Turnout			145,117	73.58%

1995

1995 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD	Udit Rai	31,577	31.7%
	INC	Janak Yadav	23,618	23.71%
	BJP	Jai Narayan Singh Solanki	19,138	19.21%
	Independent	Ram Babu Rai	12,140	12.19%
	Samata Party	Mithilesh Kumar Singh	904	0.91%
	Bhartiya Pragatisheel Party	Yashwant Singh	164	0.16%
	Independent	Yogender Prasad Yadav	49	0.05%
	Independent	Abhay Kumar Singh	35	0.04%
	Independent	Vishavjit Sinha	35	0.04%
	Independent	Suman Kumar	29	0.03%
	Independent	Uday Kumar Mishra	21	0.02%
	Independent	Rameshwar Prasad Sinha	20	0.02%
	Independent	Heera Lal Rai	19	0.02%
	Independent	Mahesh Singh	13	0.01%
	Independent	Nagender Pandey	13	0.01%
	Independent	Anjani Singh	10	0.01%
Majority			7,959	7.99%
Turnout			99,613	55.04%

1990

1990 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Udit Rai	65,355	49.08%
	JD	Janak Yadau	46,292	34.76%
	BJP	Ganesh Koo Singh	10,480	7.87%
	INC	Ram Shekher Singh	9,322	7.00%
	Independent	Surendra Nath Tiwari	535	0.40%
	BSP	Om Prakash Sharma	443	0.33%
	Independent	Suresh Singh	333	0.25%
	Janata Party (JP)	Raghubansh Singh	114	0.09%
	Independent	Ramjee Singh	82	0.06%
	Independent	Reoti Raman Prasad	62	0.05%
	Independent	Ramedeo Singh	53	0.04%
	Independent	Krishna Roy	41	0.03%
	Independent	Raja Baboo Prasad	31	0.02%
	Independent	Nityanand Singh	24	0.02%
Majority			19,063	14.32%
Turnout			133,167	66.27%

1985

1985 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Janak Yadav	46,438	50.99%
	INC	Mithilesh Kumar Singh	36,153	39.70%
	Janta Party	Ramjanam Gupta	3,834	4.21%
	BJP	Sabhapati Vishwakarma	3,689	4.05%
	Independent	Nawal Kishore Nirala	353	0.39%
	Independent	Satya Narain Prasad	225	0.25%
	Independent	Ramji Singh	144	0.16%
	Independent	Ramdeo Singh	123	0.14%
	Independent	Keshari Nandan Sinha	117	0.13%
Majority			10,285	11.29%
Turnout			91,076	59.6%

1980

1980 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP	Janak Yadav	27,568	34.14%
	Janata Party (JP)	Mithilesh Kumar Singh	21,838	27.04%
	BJP	Subhapati Bishwakarma	13,311	16.48%
	INC(I)	Hira Lal Rai	13,116	16.24%
	Independent	Baldeo Singh	3,269	4.05%
	Independent	Anirudh Singh	796	0.99%
	Independent	Birendra Maharaj	358	0.44%
	Janata Party (secular) - Raj Narain	Ravindra Prasad Verma	214	0.27%
	Independent	Ram Pratap Singh	141	0.17%
	Independent	Hari Ram Singh	139	0.17%
Majority			5,730	7.10%
Turnout			80,750	54.35%

1977

1977 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP	Mithlesh Kumar Singh	32,865	51.55%
	Independent	Janak Yadav	14,978	23.49%
	INC	Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav	13,734	21.54%
	Independent	Shankar Prasad	5,400	0.85%
	Independent	Mukhtar Ahmed	4,320	0.68%
	Independent	Ramji Singh	4,230	0.66%
	Independent	Rameshwar Prasad Rajpal	4,020	0.63%
	Independent	Lalit Mohan Singh Yadav	1,240	0.19%
	Independent	Shrimati Sundari Devi	1,050	0.16%
	Independent	Shiv Kumar Singh	1,040	0.16%
	Independent	Udai Pratap N Singh	450	0.07%
Majority			17,887	28.07%
Turnout			63,752	55.43%

1972

1972 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Chapra

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Janak Yadav	30,240	43.43%
	INC(O)	Udai Pratap N Singh	23,172	33.28%
	ABJS	Lal Babu Roy	13,870	19.92%
	Independent	Prahalad Singh	1,104	1.59%
	SSP	Dhanjaya Prasad Singh	946	1.36%
	Independent	Rameshwar Prasad Rajpal	297	0.43%
Majority			7,068	10.15%
Turnout			69,629	65.24%

1969-1957

In the 1969 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Janak Yadav of the Praja Socialist Party won the Chapra constituency. In the 1967 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Uday Pratap N Singh of Bharatiya Jana Sangh won the Chapra assembly seat. In the 1962, Bihar Vidhan Sabha elections, Sundri Devi of the Indian National Congress (INC) won the Chapra assembly seat.1957, Bihar Vidhan Sabha elections, Prabhunath Singh and Jaglal Chaudhary of the Indian National Congress (INC) won the Chapra assembly seat.