Sonpur Assembly constituency

Sonpur Assembly constituency, often spelt Sonepur, is in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar.^[1]

Sonpur
Constituency No. 122 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Saran
Established	1951
Elected year	2020

This article is about the assembly constituency in Bihar. For its eponymous assembly constituency In Odisha, see Sonepur Assembly constituency. For its eponymous town, see Sonpur, Bihar.

Sonpur Vidhan Sabha Saran Bihar

Ram Sundar Das, sitting MLA from Sonpur 1977–1980, served as Bihar's Chief Minister briefly in 1979.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 122 Sonpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Sonpur and Dighwara C.D. blocks.^[2][3][4]

Sonpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 20 Saran (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2] It was earlier part of Chapra (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Vidhan Sabha

Year	Member	Party
1952	Jagadish Sharma		Indian National Congress
1957	Ram Binod Singh		Independent
1962	Sheo Bachan Singh		Communist Party of India
1967	Ram Jaipal Singh Yadav		Indian National Congress
1969
1972
1977	Ram Sunder Das		Janata Party
1980	Lalu Prasad Yadav		Janata Party
1985			Lok Dal
1990	Raj Kumar Roy		Janata Dal
1995
2000	Vinay Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2010	Vinay Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Sonpur^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav	73,247	43.11	−11.76
	BJP	Vinay Kumar Singh	66,561	39.18	+7.51
	Independent	Chandan Lal	8,667	5.1
	Independent	Ramesh Kumar	5,541	3.26
	Independent	Suman Kumar	3,055	1.8
	Independent	Hem Narayan Singh	3,044	1.79
	Independent	Pinki Kumari Prasad	1,942	1.14
	NCP	Dharamveer Kumar	1,603	0.94
	NOTA	None of the above	1,546	0.91	−1.82
Majority			6,686	3.93	−19.27
Turnout			169,896	58.96	+0.4
	RJD hold		Swing

2015

• Ramanuj Prasad Yadav (RJD): 86,082 votes
• Vinay Kumar Singh (BJP): 49,686 votes

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sonpur^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Dr. Ramanuj Prasad	86,082	54.87
	BJP	Vinay Kumar Singh	49,686	31.67
	Independent	Binod Kumar Singh	3,606	2.3
	Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	Pradeep Kumar Sahni	3,265	2.08
	Independent	Sudhir Kumar Singh Alias Bhola Singh	2,312	1.47
	Independent	Ashok Singh	2,172	1.38
	NOTA	None of the above	4,290	2.73
Majority			36,396	23.2
Turnout			156,884	58.56

1980

• Lalu Prasad Yadav (Janata-Secular): 45,041 votes^[7]
• Jawahar Prasad Singh (Indira Congress): 35,874 votes
• Ram Sunder Das (Janata Party): 10,396 votes

1977

• Ram Sunder Das (JNP): 40,747 votes^[8]
• Rameshwar Prasad Rai (IND): 15,411 votes