Madhepura Assembly constituency

Madhepura Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Madhepura district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Madhepura will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[1][2]

Madhepura
Constituency No. 73 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Madhepura
Lok Sabha constituency	13. Madhepura
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Prof. Chandrashekhar Yadav
Party	Rastriya Janata Dal
Alliance	MGB
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 73 Madhepura Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Madhepura, Ghamharia and Ghailadh community development blocks; Belo, Nadhi, Jitapur, Bhatkhora, Tamot Parsa and Parwa Navtol gram panchayats of Murliganj CD Block.^[3]

Madhepura Assembly constituency is part of No. 13 Madhepura (Lok Sabha constituency) .^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[4]	Party
1957	Bhupendra Narayan Mandal		Independent politician
1962	Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal		Indian National Congress
1967	M.P. Yadav		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Bholi Prasad Mandal		Indian National Congress
1972	Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal		Samyukta Socialist Party
1977	Radha Kant Yadav		Janata Party
1980			Janata Party
1985	Bholi Prasad Mandal		Indian National Congress
1985^	Rajendra Prasad Yadav
1990	Radha Kant Yadav		Janata Dal
1995	Parameshwari Prasad Nirala
2000	Rajendra Prasad Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Manindra Kumar Mandal		Janata Dal (United)
2005
2010	Chandrashekhar Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Madhepura^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Chandra Shekhar Yadav	81,116	39.52	−10.0
	JD(U)	Nikhil Mandal	65,070	31.7
	JAP(L)	Pappu Yadav	26,591	12.96	+9.24
	LJP	Saakar Suresh Yadav	6,356	3.1
	Independent	Shashi Kumar	5,566	2.71
	Independent	Vikram Kumar	4,295	2.09
	Independent	Lalan Kumar	2,828	1.38
	Independent	Lalo Rishidev	1,979	0.96
	NOTA	None of the above	1,352	0.66	−0.92
Majority			16,046	7.82	−12.67
Turnout			205,250	62.06	+1.85
	RJD gain from		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Madhepura^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Chandra Shekhar	90,974	49.52
	BJP	Vijay Kumar " Bimal"	53,332	29.03
	JAP(L)	Ashok Kumar	6,833	3.72
	Independent	Jyoti Mandal	4,386	2.39
	Independent	Ala Udin	3,605	1.96
	Independent	Vishal Kumar	2,839	1.55
	CPI(M)	Ganesh Manav	2,549	1.39
	BSP	Kapildev Paswan	2,323	1.26
	Hind Congress Party	Vinod Kumar	2,224	1.21
	Janta Dal Rashtravadi	Vijendra Yadav	2,177	1.18
	NOTA	None of the above	2,907	1.58
Majority			37,642	20.49
Turnout			183,722	60.21