Karakat Assembly constituency

Karakat Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency for Bihar Legislative Assembly in Rohtas district of Bihar, India. It comes under Karakat.^[1] In the 2020 assembly elections, Arun Kumar Singh of CPI(ML) defeated Rajeswar Raj of Bharatiya Janata Party to emerge victorious.^[2]

Karakat Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 213 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Rohtas
Lok Sabha constituency	Karakat
Established	1967
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[3]	Party
1967	Tulsi Yadav		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969
1972	Manorma Pandey		Indian National Congress
1977	Tribhuwan Singh		Janata Party
1980	Tulsi Yadav		Janata Party
1985	Shashi Rani Mishra		Indian National Congress
1990	Tulsi Yadav		Janata Dal
1995
2000	Arun Singh		Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation
2005
2005
2010	Rajeshwar Raj		Janata Dal (United)
2015	Sanjay Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Arun Singh[4]		Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Karakat

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(ML)L	Arun Singh	82,700	48.19%
	BJP	Rajeshwar Raj	64,511	37.59%
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors				[5]
	gain from		Swing