Warisaliganj Assembly constituency

Warisaliganj Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Nawada Lok Sabha constituency.^[1]

Warisaliganj
Constituency No. 239 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Nawada
Lok Sabha constituency	Nawada
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Aruna Devi
Party	BJP
Elected year	2020

Overview

Warisaliganj comprises CD Blocks Warisaliganj, Kashichak and Pakribarawan. ^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1952	Chetu Ram		Indian National Congress
1957	Ramkishun Singh
1962
1967	Deo Nandan Prasad		Communist Party of India
1969
1972	Shyam Sunder Prasad Singh		Indian National Congress
1977	Ram Ratan Singh		Janata Party
1980	Bandi Shankar Singh		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Deo Nandan Prasad		Communist Party of India
1995	Ramashray Prasad Singh		Indian National Congress
2000	Aruna Devi		Independent politician
2005			Lok Janshakti Party
2005	Pradeep Mahto		Independent politician
2010			Janata Dal (United)
2015	Aruna Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Warisaliganj^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Aruna Devi	62,451	36.49	−14.7
	INC	Satish Kumar	53,421	31.22
	Independent	Arti Sinha	39,363	23.0
	RLSP	Rajendra Prasad	4,755	2.78
	Rashtriya Jan Jan Party	Sumit Raj	2,382	1.39
	NOTA	None of the above	4,010	2.34	−0.55
Majority			9,030	5.27	−6.36
Turnout			171,126	48.75	−3.07
	BJP hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Warisaliganj^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Aruna Devi	85,912	51.19
	JD(U)	Pradip Kumar	66,385	39.56
	CPI	Ram Kishore Sharma	3,548	2.11
	JAP(L)	Rajiv Kumar	3,118	1.86
	Independent	Sindhu Sharma	2,822	1.68
	NOTA	None of the above	4,851	2.89
Majority			19,527	11.63
Turnout			167,821	51.82