Keoti Assembly constituency

Keoti (Assembly constituency) is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Keoti Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 86 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Darbhanga
Lok Sabha constituency	Madhubani
Established	1977
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 86 Keoti Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Keoti community development block; Arai Birdipur, Banauli, Bharathi, Bharhulli, Hariharpur East, Hariharpur West, Harpur, Madhopur Basatwara, Kaligaon, Sadhwara, Dighiar, Tektar and Simri gram panchayats of Singhwara CD Block.^[1]

Keoti Assembly constituency is part of No. 6 Madhubani (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1977	Durgadas Thakur		Janata Party
1980	Shamaele Nabi		Indian National Congress
1985	Kalim Ahmad
1990	Ghulam Sarwar		Janata Dal
1995
2000			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ashok Kumar Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010
2015	Faraz Fatmi		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Murari Mohan Jha		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2020: Keoti

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Murari Mohan Jha	76,372	46.75
	RJD	Abdul Bari Siddiqui	71246	43.61
Turnout

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Keoti^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Faraz Fatmi	67,601	44.12
	BJP	Ashok Kumar Yadav	60,771	41.74
Turnout			145,587	54.62
Registered electors			266,544