Raghunathpur, Bihar Assembly constituency

Raghunathpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Siwan district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Raghunathpur, Bihar
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Siwan
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 108 Raghunathpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Raghunathpur and Hussainganj community development blocks; Shekpura, Piyaur, Aranda, Gayghat and Usari Bujurg gram panchayats of Hasanpura CD Block.^[1]

Raghunathpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 18 Siwan (Lok Sabha constituency) .^[1] Raghunathpur consists of village's like Rajpur, Kausar, Murarpatti, Mathia, Semaria, Narakatia, Khap banakat, Narhan, Adampur, Lagusa, Nikhti, Jhakhara etc.

Member of legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Ram Nandan Yadav		Indian National Congress
1957	Ramdev Sinha		Praja Socialist Party
1962	Ram Nandan Yadav		Indian National Congress
1967	Ramdev Sinha		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Ram Nandan Yadav		Indian National Congress
1972	Shreenivas Singh		Indian National Congress
1977	Vikram Kunwar		Janata Party
1980	Vijay Shanker Dubey		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990
1995	Vikram Kunwar		Janata Dal
2000	Vijay Shanker Dubey		Indian National Congress
2005	Jagmato Devi		Independent politician
2005			Janata Dal (United)
2010	Vikram Kunwar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Hari Shankar Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Raghunathpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Hari Shankar Yadav	67,757	42.66%	+0.68
	LJP	Manoj Kumar Singh	49,792	31.35%	new
	JD(U)	Rajeshwar Chouhan	26,162	16.47%
	NOTA	None of the above	4,655	2.93%
Majority			17,965
Turnout
	RJD hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Raghunathpur^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Hari Shankar Yadav	61,042	41.98
	BJP	Manoj Kumar Singh	50,420	34.67
	CPI(ML)L	Amarnath Yadav	16,714	11.49
	NOTA	None of the above	4,226	2.91
Turnout			145,413	54.73
Registered electors			265,711

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