Paliganj Assembly constituency

Paliganj Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Danapur, Maner, Phulwari, Masaurhi and Bikram.^[1]

Paliganj Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 190 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Patna
Lok Sabha constituency	Pataliputra
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sandeep Saurav
Party	CPI(ML)L
Elected year	2020

Overview

Paliganj in Patna district

Paliganj comprises CD Blocks Dulhin Bazar & Paliganj.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[3]	Party
1952	Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav		Indian National Congress
1957	Chandradeo Prasad Verma		Praja Socialist Party
1962	Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav		Indian National Congress
1967	Chandradeo Prasad Verma		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969
1972	Kanhai Singh		Indian National Congress
1977			Independent politician
1980	Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990
1991^	Chandradeo Prasad Verma		Janata Dal
1995
1996^	Janardan Sharma		Bharatiya Janata Party
2000	Dinanath Singh Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Nand Kumar Nanda		Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation
2005
2010	Usha Vidyarthi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Jai Vardhan Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Sandeep Yadav		Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation

^by-election

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Paliganj^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(ML)L	Sandeep Yadav	67,917	43.73
	JD(U)	Jai Vardhan Yadav	37,002	23.83
	LJP	Usha Vidyarthi	16,102	10.37
	RLSP	Madhu Manjari	5,467	3.52
	Independent	Sunil Kumar	5,261	3.39
	Independent	Gopal Chaudhari	4,444	2.86
	LPSP	Dinanath Pandit	1,767	1.14
	Independent	Dhananjay Kumar	1,543	0.99
	Bhartiya Sablog Party	Ravish Kumar	1,497	0.96
	Shoshit Samaj Dal	Sant Kumar Singh	1,443	0.93
	NOTA	None of the above	1,881	1.21	−0.52
Majority			30,915	19.9	+3.18
Turnout			155,296	54.71	−1.05
	CPI(ML)L gain from RJD		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Paliganj^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Jai Vardhan Yadav	65,932	45.08
	BJP	Ram Janm Sharma	41,479	28.36
	CPI(ML)L	Anwar Husain	19,438	13.29
	Independent	Chandan Kumar	5,145	3.52
	BSP	Alakh Niranjan Pal	2,424	1.66
	Independent	Hare Krishn Singh	1,947	1.33
	Independent	Pratibha Jha	1,806	1.23
	Independent	Lakshman Sharma	1,628	1.11
	NOTA	None of the above	2,524	1.73
Majority			24,453	16.72
Turnout			146,255	55.76
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of Bihar Legislative Assembly