Chhatapur Assembly constituency

Chhatapur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Supaul district in the Indian state of Bihar. It has been an open seat since 2010, but earlier it was reserved for Scheduled Castes. There are a total of 23 gram panchayat under the Chhatapur block.

Chhatapur
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Supaul
Established	1967
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 45 Chhatapur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chhatapur and Basantpur community development blocks.^[1]

Chhatapur Assembly constituency is part of No. 8 Supaul (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1967	Kumbha Narayan Sardar		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969
1972			Indian National Congress
1977	Sitaram Paswan		Janata Party
1980	Kumbha Narayan Sardar		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Yogendra Narayan Sardar		Janata Dal
1995	Vishwa Mohan Bharti
2000	Gita Devi		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2002^	Gauri Shankar Sardar
2005	Mahendra Narayan Sardar
2005	Vishwa Mohan Bharti		Janata Dal (United)
2010	Neeraj Kumar Singh
2015			Bharatiya Janata Party
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Chhatapur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Neeraj Kumar Singh	93,755	46.39
	RJD	Vipin Kumar Singh	73120	36.18
	AIMIM	Alam	1990	0.98
	BSP	Mohammad Matin Ansari	1761	0.87
	NOTA	None of the above	1219	0.6
	NCP	Dr. Ranjeet Kumar Jha	951	0.47
	PP	Bhaskar Kumar Mishra	435	0.22
Majority			20635
Turnout			202088
	BJP hold		Swing

1990 election

• Yogendra Nr. Sardar (JD): 57,721 votes^[3]
• Kumbh Nr. Sardar (INC): 33,698 votes

1977 election

• Sitaram Paswan (Janata Party): 27,709 votes^[4]
• Kumbh Narayan Sardar (INC): 12,296 votes