Munger Assembly constituency

Munger is an assembly constituency in Munger district in the Indian state of Bihar.^[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Munger will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2][3]

Munger
Constituency No. 165 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Munger
Lok Sabha constituency	Munger
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Pranav Kumar Yadav
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2020

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[4]	Party
1957	Nirpad Mukherji		Indian National Congress
1962	Ramgovind Verma
1967	Hasim		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Ravish Chandra Verma		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972	Prafulla Kumar Mishra		Indian National Congress
1977	Syed Jabir Hussain		Janata Party
1980	Ramdeo Singh Yadav		Janata Party (Secular)
1985			Lokdal
1990			Janata Dal
1995	Monazir Hassan
2000			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005			Janata Dal (United)
2005
2009^	Vishwanath Prasad Gupta		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2010	Anant Kumar Satyarthy		Janata Dal (United)
2015	Vijay Kumar Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Pranav Kumar Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Munger^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Vijay Kumar "Vijay"	77,216	46.15
	BJP	Pranav Kumar Singh	72,851	43.54
Majority			4365
Turnout
	RJD gain from JD(U)		Swing

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Munger^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pranav Kumar Yadav	75,573	45.74
	RJD	Avinash Kumar Vidyarthi	74,329	44.99
	PP	Shalini Kumari	4,497	2.72
Majority			1244
Turnout
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing