Sandesh Assembly constituency

Sandesh Assembly constituency is one of 243 assembly seats of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. It is part of Arrah Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz Barhara, Arrah, Agiaon (SC), Tarari, Jagdishpur and Shahpur.[1]

Sandesh Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 192 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictBhojpur
LS constituencyArrah
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)
Elected year2020

Area/ Wards edit

Sandesh Assembly constituency comprises:[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly edit

The Sandesh Assembly constituency was created in 1957. The list of the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Sandesh constituency is as follows:

Year Member[3] Party
1957 Jhaman Prasad Indian National Congress
1962
1967 R. S. Singh Samyukta Socialist Party
1969 Ramji Prasad Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972
1977 Ram Dayal Singh Janata Party
1978^ Sonadhari Singh Yadav[4] Indian National Congress
1980 Sidh Nath Rai Indian National Congress
1985 Sonadhari Singh Yadav Lokdal
1990 Janata Dal
1995 Rameshwar Prasad Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation
2000 Vijendra Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Rameshwar Prasad Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation
2005 Vijendra Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
2010 Sanjay Singh Tiger Bharatiya Janata Party
2015 Arun Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020 Kiran Devi Yadav

Election results edit

2020 edit

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Sandesh
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD
JD(U)
NOTA None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors [5]
gain from Swing
2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sandesh constituency[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Arun Kumar Yadav 74,306 49.79
BJP Sanjay Singh Tiger 48,879 32.75
CPI(ML)L Raju Yadav 15,879 10.64
NOTA n/a 3,713 2.49
Turnout 149,245 56.16
Registered electors 365,742

See also edit

Sources edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Arrah Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  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 20 December 2013.
  3. ^ "Sandesh Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  4. ^ "Sitting and previous MLAs from Sandesh Assembly Constituency". www.elections.in.
  5. ^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Bihar 2015". Election Commission of India.

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