Kalyanpur, Samastipur Assembly constituency

For disambiguation, see Kalyanpur.

Kalyanpur is an assembly constituency in Samastipur district in the Indian state of Bihar. The seat is reserved for scheduled castes.

Kalyanpur
Constituency No. 131 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Samastipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Samastipur
Established	1967
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Maheshwar Hazari
Party	JD(U)
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020
Preceded by	Manju Kumari   JD(U)

History

In this constituency, the contest for political representation used to be in between the members of Koeri and Bhumihar caste until 2010, when the constituency was reserved for the Schedule Castes. The reservation of the constituency led to dilution of the caste based mobilisation of the candidates from the two castes. However, the political history of the constituency shows that for most of the times, this constituency has elected a legislator belonging to Koeri caste. The legislators belonging to the Koeri caste are Brahmdeo Narain Singh, Sita Sinha, Ashok Prasad Verma and Ashwamedh Devi among others.^[1][2]

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 131 Kalyanpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kalyanpur and Pusa community development blocks.^[3]

Kalyanpur Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 23 Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1967	Brahmdeo Narain Singh		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969
1972	Ram Naresh Trivedi		Indian National Congress
1977	Bashistha Narayan Singh		Janata Party
1980	Ram Sukumari Devi		Indian National Congress
1985	Bashistha Narayan Singh		Lokdal
1990	Dilip Kumar Rai		Indian National Congress
1995	Sita Sinha		Janata Dal
2000	Ashwamedh Devi		Samata Party
2005	Ashok Prasad Verma		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ashwamedh Devi		Janata Dal (United)
2009^	Ashok Prasad Verma		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2010	Ram Sewak Hazari		Janata Dal (United)
2013^	Manju Kumari
2015	Maheshwar Hazari
2020

Election results

2020

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2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kalyanpur, Samastipur^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Maheshwar Hazari	72,279	38.46	−11.94
	CPI(ML)L	Ranjeet Kumar Ram	62,028	33.0
	LJP	A Mona Prasad Sundeshwar Ram	23,163	12.32	−15.71
	Rashtriya Jan Vikas Party	Umesh Das	4,329	2.3
	Yuva Krantikari Party	Sanjay Das	3,875	2.06
	Aam Janmat Party	Anamika	3,723	1.98
	SS	Shatrudhan Paswan	3,303	1.76	+0.78
	Independent	Shiv Nath Sharan	2,734	1.45
	Bhartiya Sablog Party	Pramila Devi	2,019	1.07
	JAP(L)	Mantesh Kumar	1,961	1.04
	NOTA	None of the above	6,899	3.67	+0.7
Majority			10,251	5.46	−16.91
Turnout			187,938	57.93	+0.53
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kalyanpur, Samastipur^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Maheshwar Hazari	84,904	50.4
	LJP	Prince Raj	47,218	28.03
	Independent	Binod Das	9,098	5.4
	Independent	Shankar Paswan	5,627	3.34
	Independent	Prem Kumar Paswan	4,057	2.41
	BSP	Abhay Kumar	2,502	1.49
	CPI(ML)L	Jibachh Paswan	1,766	1.05
	SS	Ram Balak Paswan	1,646	0.98
	NCP	Renu Raj	1,586	0.94
	National Janta Party (Indian)	Santosh Kumar Paswan	1,554	0.92
	NOTA	None of the above	4,999	2.97
Majority			37,686	22.37
Turnout			168,470	57.4