Simri Bakhtiarpur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Saharsa district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 76 Simri Bakhtiarpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Simri Bakhtiyarpur and Salkhua community development blocks; Ghoghepur, Jhara, Aeina, Maheshi North, Maheshi South, Rajanpur, Sirwar Naharwar gram panchayats of Mahishi CD Block.

Simri Bakhtiarpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Khagaria (Lok Sabha constituency) Present MP Rajesh Verma and MLA Yusuf Salahuddin.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearNameParty
1952Jiyalal MandalIndian National Congress
1957Mohammed Salauddin
1962
1969Ram Chandra PrasadSamyukta Socialist Party
1972Mohammad SalahuddinIndian National Congress
1977
1980Indian National Congress (I)
1985Indian National Congress
1990Dinesh Chandra YadavJanata Dal
1995Mehboob Ali KaiserIndian National Congress
2000
2005Dinesh Chandra YadavJanata Dal (United)
2005
2009^Mehboob Ali KaiserIndian National Congress
2010Arun KumarJanata Dal (United)
2015Dinesh Chandra Yadav
2019^Zafar AlamRashtriya Janata Dal
2020Yusuf Salahuddin
2025Sanjay Kumar SinghLok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)

^by-election

Election results

2025

Source:

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Simri Bakhtiarpur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
LJP(RV)Sanjay Kumar Singh109,69946.94
RJDYusuf Salahuddin101,76943.54+5.06
IndependentVikash Raj7,4933.21
JSPSurendra Yadav2,2700.97
NOTANone of the above4,9962.14+1.42
Majority7,9303.4+2.5
Turnout233,72569.36+11.27
LJP(RV) gain from RJDSwing

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Simri Bakhtirapur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RJDYusuf Salahuddin75,68438.48
VIPMukesh Sahani73,92537.58
LJPSanjay Kumar Singh6,9623.54−21.1
Aadarsh Mithila PartyUmesh Chandra Bharti5,2962.69
IndependentKhagesh Kumar Sah4,7522.42
JAP(L)Zafar Alam4,0122.04+0.94
IndependentRitesh Ranjan2,8401.44−4.52
IndependentDomi Sharma2,6351.34
IndependentSulendra Das2,3611.2
Aam Adhikar MorchaDhirendra Choudhary2,2601.15
LPSPRajesh Kumar2,1591.1
Log Jan Party SecularPintu Sharma2,1371.09
NOTANone of the above1,4070.72−3.88
Majority1,7590.9−21.98
Turnout196,70058.09+3.79
RJD gain from JD(U)Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Simri Bakhtiarpur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD(U)Dinesh Chandra Yadav78,51447.52
LJPYusuf Salahuddin40,70824.64
IndependentRitesh Ranjan9,8475.96
Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik PartyGanesh Mukhiya Nishad6,8434.14
IndependentYaduvansh Roy3,7662.28
JMMDinesh Kumar Choudhary3,7172.25
IndependentArbind Kumar Singh3,7052.24
IndependentUpendra Yadav2,2901.39
JAP(L)Dharamavir Yadav1,8251.1
BSPBinod Paswan1,7621.07
IndependentArvind Kumar1,6030.97
NOTANone of the above7,6014.6
Majority37,80622.88
Turnout165,23354.3

2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Dr. Arun Kumar of JD(U) won the Simri Bakhtirapur assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Choudhry Mehboob Ali Kaisar of Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. In the October 2005 and February 2005 state assembly elections Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JD(U) defeated Choudhry Mehboob Ali Kaiser of Congress and Zafar Alam of RJD respectively. Choudhry Md. Mehboob Ali Kaiser of Congress defeated Zafar Alam of RJD in 2000 and Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JD in 1995. Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JD defeated Mehboob Ali Kaiser of Congress in 1990. Choudhary Mohammad Salahuddin of Congress defeated Dinesh Chandra Yadav representing Lok Dal in 1985 and representing Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) in 1980, and Ayodhya Prasad Yadav, Independent, in 1977.

External links

  • . eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India.

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