Mahnar Assembly constituency

Mahnar is an assembly constituency in Vaishali district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Mahnar
Constituency No. 129 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Vaishali
Lok Sabha constituency	21. Hajipur (SC)
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bina Singh
Party	Rashtriya Janata Dal
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 129 Mahnar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Mahnar community development block; Borhan urf Rasulpur Gaus, Basantpur, Mohiuddinpur Garahi, Harprasad, Mahipura, Sohrathi, Mahisaur, Chandsarai, Dihbuchauli, Peerapur, Rasalpur Purushottam, Bishunpur Bedauliya, Saiyad Mahammad urf Salha, Khopi, Arniyan, Hazrat Jandaha, Bahsi Saidpur, Mukundpur Bhath and Loma gram panchayats of Jandaha community development block.^[1]

Mahnar Assembly constituency is part of No. 21 Hajipur (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1952	Deep Narayan Singh		Indian National Congress
1957	Banarsi Devi		Indian National Congress
1962	Muneshwar Prasad Singh		Praja Socialist Party
1967			Samyukta Socialist Party
1969			Samyukta Socialist Party
1972			Socialist Party
1977			Janata Party
1980	Munshilal Rai		Janata Party
1985			Lok Dal
1990	Muneshwar Prasad Singh		Socialist Party-Lohia
1995	Munshilal Rai		Janata Dal
2000	Rama Kishore Singh		Janata Dal (United)
2005			Lok Janshakti Party
2005
2010	Achyutanand Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Umesh Kushwaha		Janata Dal (United)
2020	Bina Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal

Election results

2020

In 2015 Janata Dal (United) deflected from the National Democratic Alliance and allied with its chief rival Rashtriya Janata Dal to form a coalition called Mahagathbandhan. In the elections to Mahnar constituency in 2015 Umesh Kushwaha of JD (U) defeated Achyutanand Singh with a large margin of 27000 votes.^[3] However, in 2020 Umesh Kushwaha lost to Bina Singh, the wife of Rama Kishore Singh who contested the 2020 election on Rashtriya Janata Dal symbol.^[4]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Mahnar^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Bina Singh	61,721	37.34
	JD(U)	Umesh Singh Kushwaha	53,774	32.54	−14.58
	LJP	Rabindra Kr. Singh	31,315	18.95
	RLSP	Triveni Kumar Choudhary	2,547	1.54
	Sathi Aur Aapka Faisala Party	Shyam Babu Singh	1,960	1.19
	Janshakti Vikas Party (Democratic)	Hareram Kumar	1,840	1.11
	JAP(L)	Raghupati Singh	1,507	0.91	−2.75
	NOTA	None of the above	4,481	2.71	+1.66
Majority			7,947	4.8	−13.05
Turnout			165,274	54.38	+0.09
	RJD gain from JD(U)		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Mahnar^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Umesh Singh Kushwaha	69,825	47.12
	BJP	Dr. Achuta Nand	43,370	29.27
	JAP(L)	Amod Kumar Ray	5,425	3.66
	Independent	Rabindra Kumar Singh	2,881	1.94
	BSP	Braj Nandan Kumar Singh	2,777	1.87
	Rastriya Sadabahar Party	Ram Sagar Hajra	2,733	1.84
	LKD	Sanjit Thakur	2,601	1.76
	Independent	Arjun Das	2,307	1.56
	Independent	Annpurna Singh	1,993	1.34
	Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	Kundan Kumar	1,598	1.08
	Independent	Mahesh Paswan	1,546	1.04
	NOTA	None of the above	1,561	1.05
Majority			26,455	17.85
Turnout			148,186	54.29

2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Dr. Achyutanand Singh of BJP won the Mahnar assembly seat defeating Rama Kishore Singh of LJP.^[6] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Rama Kishore Singh of LJP defeated Munshilal Rai of RJD in October 2005 and February 2005. Rama Kishore Singh of JD(U) defeated Munshilal Rai of RJD in 2000. Munshilal Rai of JD defeated Rama Kishore Singh, Independent, in 1995. Muneshwar Prasad Singh of SOP(L) defeated Raghupati of JD in 1990. Munshilal Rai of LD defeated Mithleshwar Prasad of Congress in 1985. Munshilal Rai of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) defeated Ram Prasad Singh of Congress in 1980. Muneshwar Prasad Singh of JP defeated Akhilesh Kumar Ray of Congress in 1977.^[7]