Maharajganj, Bihar Assembly constituency

Maharajganj is an assembly constituency in Siwan district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Maharajganj, Siwan Bihar
Constituency No. 112 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Siwan
Lok Sabha constituency	19. Maharajganj
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Vijay Shanker Dubey
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 112 Maharajganj Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Maharajganj and Bhagwanpur Hat community development blocks.^[1]

Maharajganj Assembly constituency is part of No. 19 Maharajganj (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Mahamaya Prasad Sinha		Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
1957	Anusuya Devi		Indian National Congress
1962	Uma Shanker Prasad		Swatantra Party
1967	Kaushalendra Pratap Shahi		Praja Socialist Party
1969	Mahamaya Prasad Sinha		Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1972	Anusuya Devi		Indian National Congress
1977	Umashanker Singh		Janata Party
1980
1985
1990			Janata Dal
1995	Baidya Nath Pande
2000	Umashanker Singh		Samata Party
2005	Damodar Singh		Janata Dal (United)
2005
2010
2015	Hemnarayan Sah
2025	Vijay Shankar Dubey		Indian National Congress

Election results

2020

In the 2015 Bihar Legislative AssemblyElections, Hemnarayan Sah of JDU won by defeating Devranjan Singh of Bharatiya Janta Party. In the 2010 state assembly elections, Damodar Singh of JD(U) won the Maharajganj assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Manik Chand Rai of RJD.^[3] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Damodar Singh of JD(U) defeated Uma Shakar Singh of RJD in October 2005 and February 2005. Uma Shankar Singh representing SAP defeated Damodar Singh, Independent, in 2000. Baidya Nath Pande of JD defeated Damodar Singh of Congress in 1995. Uma Shanker Singh of JD Anusuya Devi of Congress in 1990. Uma Shankar Singh of JP defeated Anusya Jayaswal of Congress in 1985. Uma Shankar Singh of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) defeated Anusuya Jayaswal of Congress in 1980. Uma Shankar Singh of JP defeated Nand Kishore Singh, Independent, in 1977.^[4]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Maharajganj^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Vijay Shanker Dubey	48,825	30.07
	JD(U)	Hem Narayan Sah	46,849	28.86	−16.65
	LJP	Dr. Deo Ranjan Singh	18,278	11.26
	Azad Samaj Party	Ejaz Ahmad Siddique	7,714	4.75
	RLSP	Ajit Prasad	4,983	3.07
	JAP(L)	Bishwanath Yadaeo	3,393	2.09	+0.72
	Independent	Om Prakash Sharma	2,185	1.35	+0.04
	Janta Dal Rashtravadi	Satyendra Kumar Gandhi	2,146	1.32	−2.5
	JP	Kamakhya Narain Singh	2,122	1.31
	Independent	Dharmendra Mahato	1,948	1.2
	Independent	Khadim Hussain	1,849	1.14
	Rashtriya Sahyog Party	Rajiv Kumar Urph Gandhi Jee	1,741	1.07
	Bharat Ka Kisan Majdoor Party	Nayan Prasad	1,699	1.05
	JP(S)	Shree Bhagwan Singh	1,631	1.0
	Independent	Sushil Kumar Dablu	1,624	1.0
	Independent	Vishwambhar Singh	1,538	0.95
	Independent	Amit Kumar	1,479	0.91
	NOTA	None of the above	2,473	1.52	+0.41
Majority			1,976	1.21	−12.28
Turnout			162,353	53.62	−0.7
	INC gain from JD(U)		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Maharajganj^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Hem Narayan Sah	68,459	45.51
	BJP	Kumar Deo Ranjan Singh	48,167	32.02
	Janta Dal Rashtravadi	Satyendra Kumar Gandhi	5,743	3.82
	Independent	Manoranjan Kumar Singh	4,864	3.23
	CPI(M)	Munshi Singh	3,909	2.6
	Independent	Rabindra Ray	3,108	2.07
	JAP(L)	Bishawanath Yadeo	2,054	1.37
	CPI	Rajendra Singh	2,049	1.36
	Independent	Om Prakash Sharma	1,974	1.31
	Bharti Samudaya Party	Atish Singh	1,549	1.03
	NOTA	None of the above	1,671	1.11
Majority			20,292	13.49
Turnout			150,439	54.32
	Bhartiya New Sanskar Krantikari Party	Om Prakash Singh	1,103	0.73