Ghanshyampur Assembly constituency was an

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constituency in

Darbhanga district Darbhanga district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state in eastern India, and Darbhanga city is the administrative headquarters of this district and 5th largest city of Bihar as well. Darbhanga district is a part of Darbhanga D ...

in the

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n state of

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

. As a consequence of the orders of the

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, Ghanshyampur Assembly constituency ceased to exist in 2010. It was part of Darbhanga (Lok Sabha constituency). There is a Mahathwar village inside the Ghanshyampur Panchayat, which Mahathwar village comes under Ghanshyampur block and it is located 3 km south of the block office. It is bound on the east by the Shambhu chowk, on the north by Pali village and on the south by Chaur (or low lying agricultural land filled up by flood water) and on the west by Hari Mushari tola and Galma village.

Results

1977-2005

In the October 2005 state assembly elections, Izhar Ahmad of LJP won the Ghanshyampur assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Dr. Mahabir Prasad of

RJD The Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD; translation: ''National People's Party'') is an Indian political party, based in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Kerala. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav. The party's support base has tradit ...

. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Dr. Mahabir Prasad of RJD defeated Izhar Ahmed of LJP/

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in February 2005 and 2000. Mahabir Prasad of JD defeated Chandra Kishore Jha of BJP/

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in 1995 and 1990. Mahabir Prasad of LD defeated Harish Chandra Jha of Congress in 1985. Mahendra Narayan Jha of Congress defeated Mahabir Prasad of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) in 1980. Mahabir Prasad of JP defeated Anirudh Jha, Independent, in 1977.

References

{{Darbhanga Division topics Former assembly constituencies of Bihar Politics of Darbhanga district