Dhaka Assembly constituency

For disambiguation, see Dhaka (disambiguation).

Dhaka is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Bihar, in East Champaran district.

Dhaka
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	East Champaran
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 21. Dhaka Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Dhaka and Ghorasahan community development blocks.^[1]

Dhaka Assembly constituency is part of 4. Sheohar (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Masoodur Rahman		Indian National Congress
1957
1962	Nek Mahamad		Communist Party of India
1967	S. N. Sharma		Praja Socialist Party
1969	Masoodur Rahman		Indian National Congress
1972	Hafiz Idris Ansari
1977	Siyaram Thakur		Janata Party
1980	Motiur Rahman		Indian National Congress
1985
1990	Avaneesh Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1995
2000	Manoj Kumar Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Avaneesh Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010	Pawan Kumar Jaiswal		Independent politician
2015	Faisal Rahman		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Pawan Kumar Jaiswal		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020 Vidhan Sabha Elections

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Dhaka

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pawan Jaiswal	99,792	48.01
	RJD	Faisal Rahman	89678	43.15
	RLSP	Ram Pukar Sinha	10932	5.26
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2015

• Faisal Rahman of RJD, won the Dhaka assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Pawan Jaiswal of BJP.

2010

• Pawan Kumar Jaiswal (IND), defeated Faisal Rahman of JD-U

1972

• Hafiz Idris Ansari (INC): 18,619 votes^[3]
• Nek Mahamad Akhtar (IND): 15,688 votes