Pirpainti Assembly constituency

Pirpainti is one of 243 constituencies of the Bihar Legislative Assembly in India. It is part of the Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz Gopalpur, Bihpur, Kahalgaon, Bhagalpur and Nathnagar.^[1]

Pirpainti Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 154 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Bhagalpur
Established	1951
Reservation	SC
Elected year	2020

Overview

Pirpainti comprises CD Block Pirpainti; Gram Panchayats KAIRIA, Bansipur, Birbanna, Rampur, Krisndaspur, Mohanpur Gogatta, Antichuck, Oriap,Mathurapur, Ramjanipur, Ghogha, Ekdara, Lagma, Salempur Saini, Kurma, Nandlalpur, Siya & Sadanandpur Baisa of Kahalgaon CD Block.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[3]	Party
1952	Siyaram Singh		Indian National Congress
1957	Ramjanam Mahto
1962	Baikunth Ram
1967	Ambika Prasad		Communist Party of India
1969
1972
1977
1980	Dilip Kumar Sinha		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Ambika Prasad		Communist Party of India
1995
2000	Shobhakant Mandal		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2005
2010	Aman Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Ram Vilash Paswan		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Lalan Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Pirpainti^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Lalan Kumar	96,229	48.54	+6.25
	RJD	Lalan Kumar	69,210	34.91	−10.29
	Independent	Aman Kumar	12,720	6.42
	Independent	Awadh Kishor Bharti	4,030	2.03
	Independent	Ajay Kumar Paswan	2,491	1.26
	NCP	Bishnudev Kumar Paswan	1,917	0.97
	NOTA	None of the above	993	0.5	−1.84
Majority			27,019	13.63	+10.72
Turnout			198,249	59.02	+1.47
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Pirpainti^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Ram Vilash Paswan	80,058	45.2
	BJP	Lalan Kumar	74,914	42.29
	CPI	Hiralal Paswan	4,622	2.61
	BSP	Parveen Nag	3,103	1.75
	Independent	Sudhir Kumar	2,878	1.62
	Independent	Shivnarayan Paswan Urf Shivlal Paswan	2,210	1.25
	NOTA	None of the above	4,138	2.34
Majority			5,144	2.91
Turnout			177,132	57.55

2010

Bihar assembly elections, 2010: Pirpainti^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Aman Kumar	48493	37.56
	LJP	Shailesh Kumar	42741	33.10