Muzaffarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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

Muzaffarpur
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Muzaffarpur
Location in Bihar
Coordinates: 26°07′00″N 85°24′00″E
Country India
StateBihar
DistrictMuzaffarpur
Constituency No.94
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency15. Muzaffarpur
Electoral systemFirst past the post

Extent

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 94 Muzaffarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Muzaffarpur municipal corporation and Bhagwanpur, Madhubani, Majhauli Khetal and Patahi gram panchayats of Musahari community development block.[3]

Muzaffarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 15 Muzaffarpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[3]

Results

1977-2015

In the 2015 and 2010 state assembly elections, Suresh Kumar Sharma of BJP won the Muzaffarpur assembly seat defeating his nearest rivals Bijendra Chaudhary of JDU and Mohammad Jamal of LJP respectively.[4] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Vijendra Choudhary, contesting as an independent, defeated Vinita Vijay of Congress in October 2005 and Suresh Kumar Sharma of BJP in February 2005. Vijendra Chaudhary representing RJD defeated Suresh Kumar Sharma of BJP in 2000. Vijendra Chaudhary representing JD defeated Raghunath Pandey of Congress in 1995. Raghunath Pandey of Congress defeated Arun Kumar Sinha of JD in 1990, Rajeshwar Prasad Singh Bhikhari of BJP in 1985 and Ram Kripal Singh of BJP in 1980. Manjay Lal of Janata Party defeated Ramdev Sharma of CPI in 1977.[5]

References
  1. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
  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. "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. "Bihar - Muzaffarpur". Bihar Assembly Elections Nov 2010 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
  5. "59 - Muzaffarpur Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
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