Jamalpur, Bihar Assembly constituency

For the constituency in West Bengal, see Jamalpur, West Bengal Assembly constituency.

Jamalpur is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Munger Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Suryagarha, Munger and Lakhisarai.^[1]

Jamalpur (Bihar)
Constituency No. 166 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Munger
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ajay Kumar Singh
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2020

Overview

Jamalpur comprises CD Blocks Jamalpur & Dharhara; Gram Panchayats Teliyadih, Naki, Bahira, Agrahan, Barhouna, Gobadda, Kouriya, Baijalpur, Muderi, Rataitha & Barui of Kharagpur CD Block.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1952[3]	Yogendra Mahato		Indian National Congress
1957[4]
1962[5]
1967	B. P. Yadav[6]		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Ram Balak Singh[7]		Communist Party of India
1972[8]	Suresh Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977[9]			Janata Party
1980[10]	Upendra Prasad Verma		Janata Party
1985[11]			Lok Dal
1990[12]			Janata Dal
1995[13]
2000[14]			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005[15]	Shailesh Kumar		Janata Dal (United)
2005[15]
2010[16]
2015[17]
2020	Ajay Kumar Singh[18]		Indian National Congress

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Jamalpur^[18][18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajay Kumar Singh	57,196	37.65
	JD(U)	Shailesh Kumar	52,764	34.73	−10.95
	LJP	Durgesh Kumar Singh	14,643	9.64	−25.53
	BSP	Subodh Tanti	4,383	2.89	+1.33
	Independent	Pankaj Kumar	3,281	2.16
	Independent	Dolly Kumari	2,650	1.74
	Independent	Pappu Yadav	1,882	1.24
	JAP(L)	Mahesh Yadav	1,840	1.21
	Independent	Dhirendra Kumar	1,811	1.19
	SUCI(C)	Kameshwar Ram	1,477	0.97	+0.36
	Independent	Deepak Kumar Raut	1,452	0.96
	NOTA	None of the above	2,072	1.36	−1.25
Majority			4,432	2.92	−7.59
Turnout			151,910	46.61	−3.08
	INC gain from JD(U)		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Jamalpur^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Shailesh Kumar	67,273	45.68
	LJP	Himanshu Kunvar	51,797	35.17
	SS	Sanjay Kumar Singh	8,228	5.59
	Independent	Rajiv Nayak	2,604	1.77
	Independent	Sanjay Singh Yadav	2,471	1.68
	BSP	Kapildeo Das	2,290	1.56
	Independent	Chandra Narayan Singh	2,026	1.38
	SP	Pappu Yadav	1,665	1.13
	Vyabasayi Kisan Alpasankhyak Morcha	Nitya Nand Choudhary	1,482	1.01
	Independent	Arjun Kushwaha	1,454	0.99
	NOTA	None of the above	3,847	2.61
Majority			15,476	10.51
Turnout			147,258	49.69

See also

• List of Assembly constituencies of Bihar