Katihar (Lok Sabha constituency)

Katihar Lok Sabha constituency (Hindi: कटिहार लोकसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India.

Dulal Chandra Goswami

Katihar
Existence1957 - present
Reservationnone
Current MPDulal Chandra Goswami
PartyJanta Dal United
Elected Year2019
StateBihar
Most Successful PartyIndian National Congress (7 times)

Assembly segments

Presently, Katihar Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:

  1. Katihar
  2. Kadwa
  3. Balrampur
  4. Pranpur
  5. Manihari
  6. Barari

Members of Parliament

The following is the list of the Members of Parliament elected from this Lok Sabha constituency:[1][2]

Year Winner Party
1957 Avadhesh Kumar Singh Indian National Congress
1958^ Bhola Nath Biswas Indian National Congress
1962 Priya Gupta Praja Socialist Party
1967 Sitaram Kesri Indian National Congress
1977 Yuvraj Janata Party
1980 Tariq Anwar Indian National Congress (I)
1984 Tariq Anwar Indian National Congress (I)
1989 Yuvraj Janata Dal
1991 Mohammad Yunus Saleem Janata Dal
1996 Tariq Anwar Indian National Congress
1998 Tariq Anwar Indian National Congress
1999 Nikhil Kumar Choudhary Bharatiya Janata Party
2004 Nikhil Kumar Choudhary Bharatiya Janata Party
2009 Nikhil Kumar Choudhary Bharatiya Janata Party
2014 Tariq Anwar Nationalist Congress Party
2019 Dulal Chandra Goswami Janata Dal (United)

Election results

2019 general elections
2019 Indian general elections: Katihar
Party Candidate Votes % ±
JD(U) Dulal Chandra Goswami 5,59,423 50.05
INC Shah Tariq Anwar 5,02,220 44.93
NCP Muhammad Shakur 9,248 0.83
NOTA None of the Above 20,584 1.84
Majority 57,203 5.12
Turnout 11,18,289 67.64
JD(U) gain from NCP Swing

2014 general elections
2014 Indian general elections: Katihar
Party Candidate Votes % ±
NCP Tariq Anwar 4,31,292 44.11 +8.81
BJP Nikhil Kumar Choudhary 3,16,552 32.37 -4.86
JD(U) Dr. Ram Prakash Mahto 1,00,765 10.30 +10.30
JMM Baleshwar Marandi 33,593 3.44 +3.44
IND. Ashok Ku. Bhagat 15,547 1.59 +1.59
Independent Kanhai Mandal 10,516 1.08 +1.08
CPI (ML) (L) Mahbub Alam 9,461 0.97 -3.45
Independent Ashok Kumar 9,000 0.92 +0.92
AITC Mahammad Hamid Mobarak 8,392 0.86 +0.86
Independent Nalini Mandal 7,969 0.81 +0.81
Independent Md. Tariq Anwar 4,514 0.46 +0.46
Rashravadi Janata Party Suresh Ray 4,450 0.46 +0.46
AAP Bibhaker Jha 4,323 0.44 +0.44
Bharat Vikas Morcha Fulmani Hembram 3,096 0.32 +0.32
BSP Shivendra Kumar 2,685 0.27 -1.90
Proutist Sarva Samaj Satyanarayan Bhagat 2,550 0.26 +0.26
Bhartiya Momin Front Abdur Rahman 2,489 0.25 +0.25
Independent Raj Kumar Mandal 2,141 0.22 +0.22
Bahujan Mukti Party Mahesh Mandal 1,980 0.20 +0.20
Independent Sanjay Singh 1,675 0.17 +0.17
SJP(R) Md. Iqbal Ahmad 1,553 0.16 +0.16
NOTA None of the Above 3,287 0.34
Majority 1,14,740 11.74
Turnout 9,77,830 67.60
NCP gain from BJP Swing

2009 general elections
2009 Indian general elections: Katihar
Party Candidate Votes % ±
BJP Nikhil Kumar Choudhary 2,69,834 37.23
NCP Shah Tariq Anwar 2,55,819 35.30
LJP Ahmad Ashfaque Karim 45,773 6.32
IND. Himraj Singh 42,026 5.80
CPI(ML) (L) Mahboob Alam 32,035 4.42
IND. Mohammad Hamid Mubarak 23,894 3.30
Majority 14,015 1.93
Turnout 7,24,802 56.95
BJP hold Swing

See also

References
  1. "Election Commission of India" Archived 2009-01-31 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Lok Sabha Former Members" Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine

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