Sheohar Assembly constituency

Sheohar Assembly constituency (Hindi pronunciation: Shivahar Vidhan Sabha Nirvachan Kshetra) is an assembly constituency in Sheohar district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Sheohar
Constituency No. 22 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Sheohar
Established	1951
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 22. Sheohar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Sheohar, Piprarhi, Dumri Katsari and Purnahiya community development blocks.^[1]

Sheohar Assembly constituency is part of 4. Sheohar (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Ram Swaroop Ram		Independent politician
1957	Thakur Girijanandan Singh
1962	Chitaranjan Singh		Indian National Congress
1967	Thakur Girijanandan Singh		Independent politician
1969			Bharatiya Kranti Dal
1972	Raghunath Jha		Indian National Congress
1977
1980
1985			Janata Party
1990			Janata Dal
1995
1998^	Thakur Ratnakar		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2000	Satyanarayan Prasad
2005	Ajit Kumar Jha
2005
2010	Sharfuddin		Janata Dal (United)
2015
2020	Chetan Anand Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sheohar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Chetan Anand Singh	73,143	42.69
	JD(U)	Sharfuddin	36457	21.28
	LJP	Vijay Kumar Pandey	18,748	10.94
	PP	Ranjeev Kumar Jha	1,248	0.73
	NOTA	None of the above	3,711	2.17
Majority
Turnout
	RJD gain from JDU		Swing