Kuchaikote Assembly constituency

Kuchaikote Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Gopalganj district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Kuchaikote
Constituency No. 102 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Gopalganj
Lok Sabha constituency	17. Gopalganj (SC)
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Amrendra Kumar Pandey
Party	Janata Dal (United)
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 102 Kuchaikote Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Kuchaikote and Pachdeuri community development blocks.^[1] Kuchaykot assembly and its surrounding areas are dominated by Brahmin voters. This is why most of the time MLAs from Brahmin caste have been elected from here, here all the parties mostly give tickets to Brahmin candidates for Brahmin votes.

Kuchaikote Assembly constituency is part of No. 17 Gopalganj (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Shiva Kumar Pathak		Indian National Congress
1957	Vachaspati Sharma
1962	Shiva Kumar Pathak
1967	Nagina Rai		Independent politician
1969			Janata Party
1972			Indian National Congress
1976-2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Amrendra Kumar Pandey		Janata Dal (United)
2015
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kuchaikote

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Amarendra Kumar Pandey	74,359	41.19
	INC	Kali Prasad Pandey	53,729	29.76
	RLSP	Sunita Devi	33,533	18.57
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,656	4.24
	LJP	Ravi Pandey	2,226	1.23
	Independent	Hari Narayan Singh	2,687	1.49
		Rest of the candidates	~6,000	3.30
Majority			20,630
Turnout
	JD(U) hold		Swing

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