Chapra, Bihar Assembly constituency
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
Elected year2020

Chapra
Assembly constituency
Chapra is located in Bihar
Chapra
Chapra
Location in Bihar
Coordinates: 25°47′05″N 84°43′39″E / 25.78472°N 84.72750°E / 25.78472; 84.72750
Country India
StateBihar
DistrictSaran
Constituency No.118
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency20. Saran
Electoral systemFirst past the post

Chapra Assembly constituency (pronounced Chhapra) is an assembly constituency in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Chapra was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[1][2]

Overview

Chhapra assembly seat has a unique distinction of electing either a Rajput or Yadav since 1967 belonging to various parties. The dominating caste, after delimitation is Vaishya which accounts for 65,000 of the 2.89 lakh voters. The vaishya community has 10-12% population in Chhapra.

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 118 Chapra Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chhapra municipality and Naini, Fakuli, Karinga, Sadha, Mouna, Tenua and Barhara Mahaji gram panchayats of Chapra community development block; Rivilganj CD Block.[3]

Chapra Assembly constituency is part of No. 20 Saran (Lok Sabha constituency).[3] It was earlier part of Chapra (Lok Sabha constituency). Chhapra assembly seat had a unique distinction of electing either a Rajput or Yadav since 1965 till 2014 belonging to various parties.[4] Randhir Kumar Singh (RJD) won the by-poll from Chhapra in 2014.[5][6] First time, a non-Yadav non-Rajput Dr. C. N. Gupta (BJP) won from assembly seat in 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.[7][8][9]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year Name[10] Party
1957 Prabhunath Singh Indian National Congress
Jaglal Chaudhary
1962 Sundri Devi
1967 Uday Pratap N Singh Bharatiya Jan Sangh
1969 Janak Yadav Praja Socialist Party
1972 Indian National Congress
1977 Mithlesh Kumar Singh Janata Party
1980 Janak Yadav
1985 Independent
1990 Udit Rai
1995 Janata Dal
2000 Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Ram Parvash Rai Janata Dal (United)
2005
2010 Janardan Singh Sigriwal Bharatiya Janata Party
2014^ Randhir Kumar Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015 C. N. Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Chapra, Bihar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Randhir Kumar Singh
BJP C. N. Gupta
NOTA None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors [11]
gain from Swing


2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Chapra, Bihar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP C. N. Gupta 71,646
RJD Randhir Kumar Singh 60267
NOTA None of the Above
Majority
Turnout 51.87
Registered electors [11]
gain from Swing

2014 by-election

Bihar Assembly election, 2010: Chapra, Bihar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Randhir Kumar Singh 55,000
Independent C. N. Gupta 31,000
BJP Kanhaiya Singh 25,300
NOTA None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors [11]
gain from Swing

References

  1. ↑ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India.
  2. ↑ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
  3. 1 2 "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  4. ↑ "RSS activist joins fray against BJP in Chhapra". The Times of India.
  5. ↑ "Saffron party struggles to keep flock together".
  6. ↑ The RJD's Randhir Singh took advantage of the split and won the seat.
  7. ↑ Chhapra seat 2015
  8. ↑ IANS. "BJP legislator being probed over Bihar communal tension | Business Standard News". Business-standard.com. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  9. ↑ "Caste stands in way of development in Chhapra | Patna News - Times of India". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  10. ↑ "Chapra Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  11. 1 2 3 "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
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