Kahalgaon Assembly constituency

Kahalgaon Assembly constituency is one of 243 legislative assemblies of Bihar. It is a part of the Bhagalpur lok sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies: Gopalpur, Pirpainti, Bihpur, Bhagalpur and Nathnagar.^[1]

Kahalgaon Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 155 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Bhagalpur
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Pawan Kumar Yadav
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2020

Overview

Kahalgaon comprises CD Blocks Goradih & Sonhoula; Gram Panchayats Parashathdih (Shankarpur Khawas), Kodwar, Janidih, Pakkisarai, Dhanora, Maishamunda, Ekchari, Bholsar, Ogree, Shyampur & Nagar Panchayat Kahalgaon of Kahalgaon CD Block.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[3]	Party
1952	Ramjanam Mahton		Indian National Congress
1957	Bhola Nath Chaubey
1962	Syed Maqbool Ahmad
1967	Nageshwar Prasad Singh		Communist Party of India
1969	Sadanand Singh		Indian National Congress
1972
1977
1980			Indian National Congress
1985			Independent politician
1990	Mahesh Prasad Mandal		Janata Dal
1995
2000	Sadanand Singh		Indian National Congress
2005
2005	Ajay Kumar Mandal		Janata Dal (United)
2010	Sadanand Singh		Indian National Congress
2015
2020	Pawan Kumar Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Kahalgaon^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pawan Kumar Yadav	115,538	56.23
	INC	Shubhanand Mukesh	72,645	35.36	−1.32
	Independent	Bijay Kumar Yadav	3,107	1.51
	NCP	Anuj Kumar Mandal	2,105	1.02
	Independent	Mahendra Tanti	1,973	0.96
	NOTA	None of the above	2,192	1.07	−1.95
Majority			42,893	20.87	+8.89
Turnout			205,463	62.0	+4.52
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kahalgaon^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sadanand Singh	64,981	36.68
	LJP	Niraj Kumar Mandal	43,752	24.7
	Independent	Pawan Kumar Yadav	26,510	14.97
	Independent	Najani Naj	9,093	5.13
	CPI	Sanjit Suman	7,339	4.14
	Independent	Deepak Kumar	3,409	1.92
	CPI(M)	Sanjiv Kumar	3,282	1.85
	Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	Pradeep Kumar	3,266	1.84
	Independent	Suman Kumar Singh	2,757	1.56
	Independent	Binod Pandey	2,748	1.55
	National Tiger Party	Vindishwri Sharma	1,853	1.05
	BSP	Manoj Kumar Yadav	1,726	0.97
	NOTA	None of the above	5,353	3.02
Majority			21,229	11.98
Turnout			177,136	57.48

2010

Bihar assembly elections, 2010: Kahalgaon^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sadanand Singh	44,936	33.97
	JD(U)	Kahkashan Perween	36,001	27.21

Candidate शोभा कांत मंडल Party राष्ट्रीय जनता दल

See also

• List of Assembly constituencies of Bihar