Samastipur Samastipur is a city and a municipal corporation (nagar nigam) in Bihar, India. It is the headquarter of Samastipur district and comes under Darbhanga division. The Budhi Gandak river flows through the town. It is one of the five railway divisi ...

Vidhan Sabha (assembly) constituency is in

Samastipur district Samastipur is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar in India. The district headquarters are located at Samastipur. The district occupies an area of 2904 km² and has a population of 4,261,566. History Samastipur became a district ...

in the

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state State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * ''Our S ...

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 ...

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 133 Warisnagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Samastipur municipality, Samastipur

community development block In India, a Community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of Tehsil, administratively earmarked for planning and development. The area is administered by a Block Development Officer (BDO), supported by several technic ...

; and Shahpur Baghauni, Bherokhara, Tajpur, Adharpur and Baghi

gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

s of Tajpur CD Block. In

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election The Legislative Assembly election was held over five-phases in Bihar through October–November 2015 before the end of the tenure of the prior Legislative Assembly of Bihar on 29 November 2015. In April 2015, the Janata Parivar group (a group ...

, Samastipur will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. Samastipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23

Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency) Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India. It is reserved for Scheduled Castes. Vidhan Sabha segments Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six ...

Members of Vidhan Sabha

* 1957, Samastipur East : Sahdeo Mahto (INC) * 1957, Samastipur West : Jadunandan Sahay (INC) * 1962, Samastipur East : Sahdeo Mahto (INC) * 1962, Samastipur West : Tej Narain Ishwar (INC) * 1967 : R.N. Sharma (SSP) : 20,976 S. Mahto M INC 17038 * 1980 : Karpoori Thakur (Janata Party - Secular) * 1985 : * 1990 : * 2000 : Ashok Singh of RJD * Feb 2005 : Shahid Ahmed 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 ...

* Oct 2005 : Ramnath Thakur of JD(U) * 2010 :

Akhtarul Islam Sahin Akhtarul Islam Shahin is an Indian politician from Rashtriya Janata Dal. He is a member of Bihar Legislative Assembly representing Samastipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd la ...

(

Rashtriya Janata Dal 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 ...

) * 2015 : Akhtarul Islam Sahin (

) * 2020 : Akhtarul Islam Sahin (

)

Election results

2020

2015

1967 Vidhan Sabha Election

* R.N. Sharma (SSP) : 20,976 votes * S. Mahto (INC) : 17,038

1977-2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Akhtarul Islam Sahin of

won the Samstipur seat defeating his nearest rival Ramnath Thakur of Janata Dal (United), JD(U). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Ramnath Thakur of JD(U) defeated Nizam Ahmed of RJD in October 2005, Shahid Ahmed of RJD in February 2005 and Ashok Singh of RJD in 2000. Ashok Singh of

Janata Dal Janata Dal (“People’s Party”) was an List of political parties in India, Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal, Indian National Congress (Jagjivan), and the Jan Morcha united on 11 ...

defeated Shahid Hushan Khan of

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in 1995 and Visheshwar Rai of

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in 1990. Ashok Singh of

Lok Dal Lokdal or Lok Dal is an Indian political party based on agriculture policies, founded by former prime minister of India Charan Singh. See also * Girraj Kishore Mahaur, former MLA of Lok Dal * Lok Dal (Charan) * Rashtriya Lok Dal Rashtri ...

defeated Jai Narain Rai of Congress in 1985.

Karpoori Thakur Karpoori Thakur (24 January 1924 – 17 February 1988) was an Indian politician from the Bihar state. He was popularly known as Jan Nayak (Hindi for people's hero). He served as the Chief Minister of Bihar from December 1970 to June 1971 (Socia ...

of Janata Party (SC) defeated Chandra Shekhar Verma of Congress(I) in 1980. Chandra Sekhar Singh of

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

defeated Ram Chandra Rai of Congress in 1977.

References

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* {{Authority control Assembly constituencies of Bihar Politics of Samastipur district Samastipur