Nalanda Assembly constituency

Nalanda is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a part of Nalanda Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Rajgir, Harnaut, Islampur, Hilsa, Asthawan and Bihar Sharif.^[1]

Nalanda
Constituency No. 176 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Nalanda
Established	1977
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Shravan Kumar
Party	Janata Dal (United)
Elected year	2020

Overview

Nalanda comprises CD Blocks Noorsarai & Ben; Gram Panchayats Nirpur, Bargaon & Surajpur of Silao CD Block; Gram Panchayats Biyavani, Maghrconstituenciesa, Dumrawan, Pachauri, Ranabigha & Meghi Nagwan of Bihar CD Block; Gram Panchayats Barnausa, Meyar, Bhui, Pilkhi, Goraur, Nahub, Pathraura & Lodipur of Rajgir CD Block.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1977	Shyam Sundar Prasad[3]		Indian National Congress
1980	Ram Naresh Singh[4]		Independent politician
1985	Shyam Sunder Singh[5]		Indian National Congress
1990	Ram Naresh Singh[6]		Independent politician
1995[7]	Shrawan Kumar		Samata Party
2000[8]
2005 (Feb)[9]			Janata Dal (United)
2005 (Oct)[9]
2010[10]
2015[11]
2020[12]

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Nalanda^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Shrawan Kumar	66,066	38.97
	Jantantrik Vikas Party	Kaushalendra Kumar	49,989	29.48
	INC	Gunjan Patel	17,293	10.20
	LJP	Ram Keshwar Prasad	10,951	6.46
	NOTA	None of the above	1,316	0.78
Majority			16,077	9.49
Turnout
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Nalanda^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Shrawan Kumar	72,596	44.78
	BJP	Kaushalendra Kumar	69,600	42.93
Majority			2,996
	JD(U) hold		Swing	10.66

2010

2010 Bihar legislative assembly election: Nalanda^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Shrawan Kumar	61532	49.78
	RJD	Arun Kumar	37030	30.63
	JD(U) hold		Swing

See also

• Nalanda district
• List of Assembly constituencies of Bihar