Patepur Assembly constituency

Patepur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Vaishali district in the Indian state of Bihar.It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Patepur
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Vaishali
Established	1951
Reservation	SC
Elected year	2020

Overview

Patepur village main route

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 130 Patepur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Patepur community development block; Mansinghpur Bijhrauli, Kumar Bajitpur, Raghopur Narsanda, Adalpur, Naree Khurd and Laxmipur Barbatta gram panchayats of Jandaha community development block.^[1]

Patepur Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 22 Ujiarpur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member[2]	Party
1952	Nathuni Lal Mahato		Socialist Party
1952^	B. Dubey		Indian National Congress
1957	Manzur Ahsan Ajazi
1962	Kamlesh Rai		Praja Socialist Party
1967	Paltan Ram		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969
1972	Righan Ram		Communist Party of India
1977	Paltan Ram		Janata Party
1980	Shiv Nandan Pawan		Janata Party
1985	Baleshwar Paswan		Indian National Congress
1990	Ram Sundar Das		Janata Dal
1991^	L. Mahto
1995	Mahendra Baitha
2000	Prema Chaudhary		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Mahendra Baitha		Lok Janshakti Party
2005	Prema Chaudhary		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2010	Mahendra Baitha		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Prema Chaudhary		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Lakhendra Raushan		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Patepur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Lakhendra Kumar Raushan
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors				[3]
	gain from		Swing

1977-2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Mahendra Baitha of BJP won the Patepur assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Prema Chaudhary of RJD.^[4] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Prema Chaudhary of RJD defeated Mahendra Baitha of LJP in October 2005. Mahendra Baitha of LJP defeated Prema Chaudhary of RJD in February 2005. Prema Chaudhary of RJD defeated Mahendra Baitha of JD(U) in 2000. Mahendra Baitha of JD defeated Prema Chaudhary of SAP in 1995. Ram Sundar Das of JD defeated Baleshwar Singh Paswan of Congress in 1990. Baleshwar Singh Paswan of Congress defeated Paltan Ram of LD in 1985. Shiv Nandan Paswan of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) defeated Baleshwar Singh Paswan of Congress in 1980. Paltan Ram of JP defeated Rijahan Ram of CPI in 1977.^[5]

2015 and 2020

In 2015; Prema Chaudhary of Rashtriya Janata Dal defeated Mahendra Baitha of Bhartiya Janata Party by 12,461 votes.^[6] In 2020 assembly elections the contest to Patepur assembly seats was bilateral. In a tough fight, Lakhendra Kumar Raushan (aka Lakhendra Paswan) of Bhartiya Janata Party defeated Shivchandra Ram of Rashtriya Janata Dal.^[7]