Motihari Assembly constituency

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

Motihari
Constituency No. 19 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	East Champaran
Lok Sabha constituency	Purvi Champaran
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 19. Motihari Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Motihari community development block including Motihari nagar parishad and Lautnaha notified area and Piprakothi CD block.^[3]

Motihari Assembly constituency is part of 3. Purvi Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency).^[3] It was earlier part of Motihari (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[4]	Party
1952	Shakuntala Devi		Indian National Congress
1957	Bigoo Ram
1962	Shakuntala Devi
1967	Chandrika Prasad Yadav		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969	Ram Sevak Prasad Jaiswal		Indian National Congress
1972	Prabhawati Gupta
1977
1980
1985	Triveni Tiwari		Communist Party of India
1990
1995
2000	Rama Devi		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Pramod Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010
2015
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Motihari

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pramod Kumar
	RJD	Om Prakash Choudhary
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	BJP hold		Swing