Kadwa Assembly constituency

Kadwa Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Katihar district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Kadwa
Constituency No. 64 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Katihar
Lok Sabha constituency	Katihar
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Shakeel Ahmad Khan
Party	INC
Alliance	I.N.D.I.A.
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	Bhola Rai,   BJP

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 64. Kadwa Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kadwa and Dandkhora community development blocks.^[1]

Kadwa Assembly constituency is part of No 11 Katihar (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Jiwats Himansu Sharma		Indian National Congress
1957	Mohiuddin Mokhtar
1962	Kamal Nath Jha
1977	Khwaja Shahid Hussain		Independent politician
1980	Mangan Insan
1985	Usman Ghani		Indian National Congress
1990	Abdul Jalil		Independent politician
1995	Bhola Ray		Bharatiya Janata Party
2000	Himraj Singh		Independent politician
2005	Abdul Jalil		Nationalist Congress Party
2005
2010	Bhola Ray		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Shakeel Ahmad Khan		Indian National Congress
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kadwa^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Shakeel Ahmad Khan	71,267	42.0	+6.55
	LJP	Chandra Bhushan Thakur	38,865	22.9
	JD(U)	Suraj Prasad Rai	31,779	18.73
	Independent	Himraj Singh	5,164	3.04
	Independent	Minu Kumari	3,713	2.19
	Independent	Ranjeet Prasad Das	2,284	1.35
	RLSP	Uma Kant Anand	1,900	1.12
	Independent	Manoranjan Prasad Das	1,721	1.01
	Independent	Sajan Kumar	1,694	1.0
	NCP	Nizam	1,638	0.97	−13.97
	Independent	Md Anwar Alam	1,601	0.94
	NOTA	None of the above	1,405	0.83	−0.39
Majority			32,402	19.1	+15.44
Turnout			169,680	60.31	−4.47
	INC hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kadwa^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Shakeel Ahmad Khan	56,141	35.45
	BJP	Chander Bhushan Thakur	50,342	31.79
	NCP	Himraj Singh	23,665	14.94
	Independent	Ashok Kumar Mehta	8,670	5.47
	Independent	Firoz Alam	2,672	1.69
	Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	Dinesh Insan	2,439	1.54
	Independent	Ram Prasad Mahli	2,056	1.3
	Independent	Ashish Kumar Singh	1,700	1.07
	NOTA	None of the above	1,925	1.22
Majority			5,799	3.66
Turnout			158,361	64.78

2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Bhola Ray of BJP won the Kadwa assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Himraj Singh of NCP.^[4] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Abdul Jalil of NCP defeated Himraj Singh representing BJP in October 2005 and Bhola Ray of BJP in February 2005. Himraj Singh, Independent, defeated Abdul Jalil representing RJD in 2000. Bhola Ray of BJP defeated Gulam Asraf of JD in 1995. Abdul Jalil, Independent, defeated Bhola Ray of BJP in 1990. Usman Ghani of Congress defeated Khaja Shahid, Independent, in 1985. Mangan Insan, Independent, defeated Usman Ghani of Congress in 1980. Khaja Shahid Hussain, Independent, defeated Mangan Insan, Independent, in 1977.^[5]