Nathnagar Assembly constituency

Nathnagar Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Gopalpur, Pirpainti, Kahalgaon, Bhagalpur and Bihpur.^[1]

Nathnagar Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 158 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Bhagalpur
Established	1967
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ali Ashraf Siddiqui
Party	Rashtriya Janata Dal
Alliance	Mahagatbandhan
Elected year	2020

Overview

Nathnagar comprises CD Blocks Nathnagar & Sabour; Gram Panchayats Puraini North, Puraini South, Baluachak Puraini, Sanholi, Baijani, Khiribandh, Jamani, Saino, Bhawanipur Desri, Chandapur, Jagdishpur, Sonuchak-Puraini, Imampur, Shajangi cense town & Habibpur Nagar Panchayat of Jagdishpur CD Block.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[3]	Party
1967	K. Jha		Indian National Congress
1969	Chunchun Prasad Yadav		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972			Indian National Congress
1977	Sudha Srivastava		Janata Party
1980	Talib Ansari		Indian National Congress
1985	Chunchun Prasad Yadav		Lokdal
1990	Sudha Srivastava		Janata Dal
1995	Lutfur Rahman
2000	Sudha Srivastava		Samata Party
2005			Janata Dal (United)
2005
2010	Ajay Kumar Mandal
2015
2019^[4]	Lakshmikant Mandal
2020	Ali Ashraf Siddiqui		Rashtriya Janata Dal

^by-election

Election results

2019

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Nathnagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Ali Ashraf Siddiqui	78,832	40.41
	JD(U)	Lakshmi Kant Mandal	71,076	36.44
	LJP	Amar Nath Prasad (Amar Singh Kushwaha)	14,715	7.54
	BSP	Ashok Kumar	9,659	4.95
		Rest of the candidates + NOTA (None of the Above)	~20,000	10.00
Majority			7,756
Turnout
Registered electors				[5]
	RJD gain from JD(U)		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Nathnagar^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Ajay Kumar Mandal	66,485	39.16
	LJP	Amar Nath Prasad	58,660	34.67
Turnout			169,787	56.47
Registered electors			300,682