Jokihat Assembly constituency

Jokihat Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Araria district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2017 Bihar Flood affected area.

Jokihat
Constituency No. 50 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Araria
Established	1967
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 50 Jokihat Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Jokihat community development block; Barahkumba, Bhikha, Nakta Khurd, Pakri, Pechaili, Ramnagar, Sohandar, Suksaina, Majlispur, Kujri and Miyanpur gram panchayats of Palasi CD Block.^[1]

Jokihat Assembly constituency is part of No 9 Araria (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1967	Nazamuddin		Praja Socialist Party
1969	Taslimuddin		Indian National Congress
1972			Independent politician
1977			Janata Party
1980	Moidur Rehman		Indian National Congress
1985	Taslimuddin		Janata Party
1990	Moidur Rahman		Independent politician
1995	Taslimuddin		Samajwadi Party
1996^	Sarfaraz Alam		Janata Dal
2000			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Manzar Alam		Janata Dal (United)
2005
2010	Sarfaraz Alam
2015
2018^	Shahnawaz Alam		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020			All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen
			Rashtriya Janata Dal

^by-election

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Jokihat^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIMIM	Shahnawaz	59,596	34.22
	RJD	Sarfaraz Alam	52,213	29.98
	BJP	Ranjit Yadav	48,933	28.1
	Independent	Saba Perween	3,696	2.12
	SDPI	Md Shabbir Ahmad	2,350	1.35	0.62
	NOTA	None of the above	2,844	1.63	1.77
Majority			7,383	4.24	29.81
Turnout			174,138	59.36	2.17
	AIMIM gain from JD(U)		Swing

2015

Janata Dal (United) had won the seat in 2015.^[3]

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Jokihat^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Sarfraz Alam	92,890	58.6
	Independent	Ranjeet Yadav	38,910	24.55
	JAP(L)	Kausar Zia	5,499	3.47
	Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)	Bibi Zeba Khatun	4,206	2.65
	Independent	Maha Nand Bishwas	2,557	1.61
	Independent	Sanjay Kumar Thakur	2,157	1.36
	BSP	Sarfuddin	1,593	1.01
	NOTA	None of the above	5,388	3.4
Majority			53,980	34.05
Turnout			158,505	61.53

2010

In the November 2010 state assembly elections, Sarfaraz Alam of JD(U) won the Jokihat assembly seat, defeating his nearest rival Kaushar Ziya, Independent. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned.

2005

Manzar Alam of JD(U) defeated Alam representing RJD in October 2005 and February 2005.

2000

Sarfraz Alam of RJD defeated Manzar Alam of JD(U) in 2000. Taslimuddin of SP defeated Bhoop Narayan Yadav, Independent, in 1995. Moidur Rahman of Congress defeated Bhoop Narayan Yadav, Independent, in 1990. Taslimuddin of JP defeated Moidur Rahman of Congress in 1985. Moidur Rahman of Congress defeated Jahoruddin, Independent, in 1980. Taslimuddin of JP defeated Moidur Rahman of Congress in 1977.^[5][6][7]