Sursand Assembly constituency

Sursand is an assembly constituency in Sitamarhi district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Sursand
Constituency No. 26 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Sitamarhi
Lok Sabha constituency	5. Sitamarhi
Established	1951
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dilip Kumar Ray
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 26. Sursand Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Sursand, Charaut, and Pupri community development blocks.^[1]

Sursand Assembly constituency is part of 5. Sitamarhi (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Ram Charitra Rai Yadav		Independent politician
1957	Maheshwar Prasad Narain Sinha		Indian National Congress
1962	Pratibha Devi
1967
1969	Ram Charitra Rai Yadav
1972
1977
1980	Nagendra Prasad Yadav
1985	Ravindra Prasad Sahi		Independent politician
1990			Indian National Congress
1995	Nagendra Prasad Yadav		Janata Dal
2000	Jainandan Prasad Yadav		Janata Dal (United)
2005			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2010	Shahid Ali Khan		Janata Dal (United)
2015	Syed Abu Dojana		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Dilip Kumar Ray		Janata Dal (United)

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sursand

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Dilip Rai	67,193	38.63	New
	RJD	Syed Abu Dojana	58,317	33.53
	LJP	Amit Choudhari	20,281	11.66	New
	NOTA	None of the above	1,613	0.66
Majority			8,876	5.10
Turnout			173,930	54.01
	JD(U) gain from RJD		Swing