Dhoraiya Assembly constituency

Dhoraiya Assembly constituency alternatively Dhauraiya or Dhuraiya Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Banka Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Amarpur, Katoria, Belhar and Banka.^[1]

Dhoraiya Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 160 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Banka
Established	1951
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bhudeo Choudhary
Party	Rashtriya Janata Dal
Alliance	Mahagathbandhan
Elected year	2020

Overview

Dhoraiya comprises CD Blocks Rajoun & Dhoraiya.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1952	Pashupati Singh[2]		Indian National Congress
1957[3]	Maulana Saminuddin
1962[4]
1967	S. Mandal[5]
1969	Ram Chanura Bhanu[6]		Independent politician
1972[7]	Naresh Das		Communist Party of India
1977[8]
1980[9]
1985	Ramroop Harijan[10]		Indian National Congress
1990[11]	Naresh Das		Communist Party of India
1995[12]
2000[13]	Bhudeo Choudhary		Samata Party
2005[14]			Janata Dal (United)
2005[14]
2010[15]	Manish Kumar
2015[16]
2020	Bhudeo Choudhary		Rashtriya Janata Dal

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Dhoraiya

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Manish Kumar
	LJP	Dipak Kumar Paswan
	RJD	Bhudeo Choudhary
	RLSP	Shiv Shankar
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Dhauraiya^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Manish Kumar	68,858	44.41
	RLSP	Bhudeo Choudhary	44,704	28.83
	CPI	Munilal Paswan	24,501	15.80
	NOTA	N/A	5,836	3.76
Turnout			155,039	57.59
Registered electors			269,196

See also

• List of Assembly constituencies of Bihar