Harlakhi Assembly constituency

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

Harlakhi
Constituency No. 31 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Madhubani
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sudhanshu Shekhar
Party	Janata Dal (United)
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 31. Harlakhi Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Harlakhi and Madhwapur community development blocks; Karhara, Samada, Salha, Teoth, Mahamadpur, Betauna and Manpaur gram panchayats of Benipatti CD Block.^[1]

Harlakhi Assembly constituency is part of No. 6. Madhubani (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Anak Kishore Devi		Indian National Congress
1962	Baidyanath Yadav		Communist Party of India
1967
1969	Shakur Ahmed		Indian National Congress
1972
1977	Baidyanath Yadav		Communist Party of India
1980	Mithilesh Pandey		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Veena Pandey
1995	Ram Naresh Pandey		Communist Party of India
2000	Sitaram Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ram Naresh Pandey		Communist Party of India
2005
2010	Shaligram Yadav		Janata Dal (United)
2015	Basant Kumar		Rashtriya Lok Samta Party
2016^	Sudhanshu Shekhar
2020			Janata Dal (United)

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Harlakhi^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Sudhanshu Shekhar	60,393	36.1
	CPI	Ram Naresh Pandey	42,800	25.58	+9.9
	Independent	Md. Shabbir	27,499	16.44
	RLSP	Santosh Kumar Singh	6,807	4.07	−23.86
	LJP	Vikash Kumar Mishra	6,177	3.69
	Independent	Shravan Kumar Yadav	3,698	2.21
	Independent	Mangesh Jha	3,039	1.82
	JAP(L)	Santosh Kumar Jha	2,960	1.77
	Independent	Mandakini Chaudhary	2,932	1.75
	Independent	Ajay Bhagat	1,865	1.11
	Independent	Archana Devi	1,854	1.11
	Sanyukt Vikas Party	Devan Mukhiya	1,665	1.0
	Independent	Satish Kumar	1,591	0.95
	NOTA	None of the above	1,242	0.74	−1.2
Majority			17,593	10.52	+7.84
Turnout			167,300	57.52	+1.43
	JD(U) gain from RLSP		Swing

2016 bypoll

By-election, 2016: Harlakhi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RLSP	Sudhanshu Shekhar	62,434	46.32
	INC	Muhammad Shabbir	43,784	32.48
	CPI	Ram Naresh Pandey	19,835	14.71
	NOTA	None of the above	8,326	5.81
Majority			18,650	13.03
Turnout			1,43,127	55.38
	RLSP hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Harlakhi constituency^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RLSP	Basant Kumar	40,468	27.93
	INC	Muhammad Shabbir	36,576	25.25
	CPI	Rishi Kumar Rai	22,709	15.68
	Independent	Ramashish Yadav	21,670	14.96
	Independent	Madan Chandra Jha	5,085	3.51
	Independent	Vishweshwar Chaupal	3,054	2.11
	BSP	Hiralal Sah	2,109	1.46
	SS	Rajnish Ram	1,608	1.11
	Independent	Purushottam Jha	1,512	1.04
	SP	Shaligram Yadav	1,474	1.02
	NOTA	None of the above	2,810	1.94
Majority			3,892	2.68
Turnout			144,866	56.09
	RLSP gain from JD(U)		Swing

2010

In the November 2010 state assembly elections, Aditya Thakur of JD(U) won the Harlakhi assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Rishi Kumar Rai of CPI. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Rishi Kumar Rai of CPI defeated Anuj Kumar of RJD in October 2005 and February 2005. Anuj Kumar of RJD defeated Rishi Kumar Rai of CPI in 2000. Rishi Kumar Rai of CPI defeated Vanya Yadav of Congress in 1995. Vanya Yadav of Congress defeated Rishi Kumar Rai of CPI in 1990. Bhuneshwar Jha of Congress defeated Vipul Borraha of CPI in 1985 and 1980. Pandey of CPI defeated sarpanch of Congress in 1977.^[4][5]