Mohania Assembly constituency

Mohania is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Sasaram Lok Sabha constituency.^[1]

Mohania Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 204 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Kaimur
Established	1957
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sangita Kumari
Party	BJP
Elected year	2020

Overview

Mohania comprises Community Blocks of Kudra & Mohania.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[3]	Party
1957	Badri Singh		Praja Socialist Party
1962	Mangal Charan Singh		Indian National Congress
1967	Ramkrishna Ram
1969	Bhagwat Prasad		Praja Socialist Party
1972	Suresh Kumar		Indian National Congress
1977	Ram Krishna Ram		Janata Party
1980	Mahavir Paswan		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Shiwadhar Paswan		Janata Dal
1995	Suresh Pasi		Bahujan Samaj Party
2000
2005			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Chhedi Paswan		Janata Dal (United)
2010
2014^	Niranjan Ram		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015
2020	Sangita Kumari[4]		Rashtriya Janata Dal

^by-election

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Mohania^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Sangita Kumari	61,235	37.84
	BJP	Niranjan Ram	49,181	30.39	−12.93
	RLSP	Suman Devi	39,855	24.63
	Rashtrawadi Janlok Party (Satya)	Indrajit Ram	1,603	0.99
	NOTA	None of the above	3,871	2.39	+0.67
Majority			12,054	7.45	+2.06
Turnout			161,836	59.89	+3.3
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Mohania^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Niranjan Ram	60,911	43.32
	INC	Sanjay Kumar	53,330	37.93
	BSP	Ram Raj Ram	9,921	7.06
	Independent	Chandra Shekhar Paswan	4,530	3.22
	CPI(ML)L	Munna Ram	2,466	1.75
	NOTA	None of the above	2,419	1.72
Majority			7,581	5.39
Turnout			140,595	56.59