Darbhanga Assembly constituency

Darbhanga Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Darbhanga
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Darbhanga
Lok Sabha constituency	Darbhanga
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sanjay Saraogi
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 83 Darbhanga Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Darbhanga municipal corporation; Kabir Chak, Kansi, Ranipur, Sara Mahamad, Shisho East, Shisho West, Basudeopur, Sahbajpur gram panchayats of Darbhanga community development block.^[1]

Darbhanga Assembly constituency is part of No. 14 Darbhanga (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Sayeedul Haque		Indian National Congress
1967	R.P. Sinha
1969	Ram Vallash Jalan		Communist Party of India
1972	Surendra Jha 'Suman'		Jana Sangh
1977	Shiv Nath Verma		Janata Party
1980	Abdul Sami Nadvi		Indian National Congress
1985	Asfak Ansari
1990	Kameshwar Purve		Janata Dal
1995	Shiv Nath Verma		Bharatiya Janata Party
2000	Sultan Ahmed		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Sanjay Saraogi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010
2015
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Darbhanga^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sanjay Saraogi	84,144	49.32	+1.66
	RJD	Amar Nath Gami	73,505	43.08	−0.01
	Independent	Shankar Kumar Jha	2,757	1.62
	Independent	Mahendra Lal Das	2,152	1.26
	JP	Sujeet Kumar Chaudhary	2,093	1.23
	NOTA	None of the above	669	0.39	−0.36
Majority			10,639	6.24	+1.67
Turnout			170,606	55.79	−1.96
	BJP hold		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Darbhanga^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sanjay Saraogi	77,776	47.66
	RJD	Om Prakash Kheria	70,316	43.09
	Independent	Jagadish Sah	3,609	2.21
	Independent	Nilam Devi Urf Nilam Dutta	3,106	1.9
	CPI(M)	Avinash Kumar Thakur	2,223	1.36
	NOTA	None of the above	1,216	0.75
Majority			7,460	4.57
Turnout			163,187	57.75
	BJP hold		Swing