Samastipur Assembly constituency

Samastipur Vidhan Sabha (assembly) constituency is in Samastipur district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Samastipur
Constituency No. 133 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Samastipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Samastipur
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Akhtarul Islam Sahin
Party	RJD
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 133 Warisnagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Samastipur municipality, Samastipur community development block; and Shahpur Baghauni, Bherokhara, Tajpur, Adharpur and Baghi gram panchayats of Tajpur CD Block.^[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Samastipur will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2][3]

Samastipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1957	Yadunandan Sahay[a]		Indian National Congress
	Sahdeo Mahato[b]
1962	Tej Narain Ishwar[c]
	Sahdeo Mahato[d]
1967	Rajendra Narain Sharma		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969
1972	Sahdeo Mahato		Indian National Congress
1977	Chandra Shekhar Singh		Janata Party
1980	Karpoori Thakur		Janata Party
1985	Ashok Singh		Lokdal
1990			Janata Dal
1995
2000	Ram Nath Thakur		Janata Dal (United)
2005
2005
2010	Akhtarul Islam Sahin		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015
2020

^by-election

1. Samastipur West
2. Samastipur East
3. Samastipur West
4. Samastipur East

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Samastipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Akhtarul Islam Shahin	68,507	41.21	13.39
	JD(U)	Ashwamedh Devi	63,793	38.37	38.37
	LJP	Mahendra Pradhan	12,074	7.26	new
	None of the Above	None of the above	1,837	1.11
Turnout
	RJD hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Samastipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Akhtarul Islam Shahin	82,508	54.60	17.90
	BJP	Renu Kumari	51,428	34.00	34.00
	Independent	Jitandar Chaudhary	3,054	2.00	new
	CPI(ML)L	Surendra Prasad Singh	2,361	1.60	new
Turnout
	RJD hold		Swing

1967 Vidhan Sabha Election

• R. N. Sharma (SSP): 20,976 votes^[4]
• S. Mahto (INC): 17,038 votes^[5][6][7]