Sultanganj Assembly constituency

Sultanganj Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a part of Banka Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Amarpur, Dhoraiya, Banka, Katoria and Belhar.^[1]

Sultanganj Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 157 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Bhagalpur
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Lalit Narayan Mandal
Party	JD U
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020

Overview

Sultanganj comprises CD Blocks Sultanganj & Shahkund.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[3]	Party
1952	Rash Bihari Lal		Indian National Congress
1957	Sarswati Devi
1962	Deviprasad Mahto
1967	Banarsi Prasad Sharma		Praja Socialist Party
1969	Ram Raksha Prasad Yadav		Indian National Congress
1972
1977	Jageshwar Mandal		Janata Party
1980	Nand Kumar Manjhi		Indian National Congress
1985	Umesh Chandras Das		Indian National Congress
1990	Fanindra Choudhary		Janata Dal
1995
2000	Ganesh Paswan		Samata Party
2005	Sudhanshu Shekhar Bhaskar		Janata Dal (United)
2005
2010	Subodh Roy
2015
2020	Lalit Narayan Mandal

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sultanganj

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Lalit Narayan Mandal	72,823	42.58
	LJP	Nilam Devi	10222	5.98
	INC	Lalan Kumar	61258	35.82
	RLSP	Himanshu Prasad	5713	3.34
	NOTA	None of the above	4719	2.76
Majority			11565
Turnout
	JD(U) hold

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Sultanganj^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Subodh Roy	63,345	40.94
	RLSP	Himanshu Prasad	49,312	31.87
Turnout			154,740	50.06
Registered electors			309,131
	JD(U) hold

2010

Bihar assembly elections, 2010: Sultanganj^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Subodh Rai	34652	28.05
	RJD	Ramavatar Mandal	29807	24.12
	JD(U) hold