Simri Bakhtiarpur Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Simri Bakhtiarpur
Constituency No. 76 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Saharsa
Established	1951

Elected year	2020

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-Bakhtiarpur and Salkhua community development blocks; Ghoghepur, Jhara, Aeina, Maheshi North, Maheshi South, Rajanpur, Sirwar Naharwar gram panchayats of Mahishi CD Block.^[1]

Simri Bakhtiarpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Khagaria (Lok Sabha constituency) Present MP Mahboob Ali Qaiser and MLA Yusuf Salahuddin.^[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[2]
1952	Jiyalal Mandal	Indian National Congress
1969	Ram Chandra Prasad	Samyukta Socialist Party
1972	Mohammad Salahuddin	Indian National Congress
1977		Indian National Congress
1980		Indian National Congress (I)
1985		Indian National Congress
1990	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Janata Dal
1995	Mehboob Ali Kaiser	Indian National Congress
2000	Mehboob Ali Kaiser	Indian National Congress
2005	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Janata Dal (United)
2005	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Janata Dal (United)
2009^	Mehboob Ali Kaiser	Indian National Congress
2010	Arun Kumar	Janata Dal (United)
2015	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Janata Dal (United)
2019^^[3]	Zafar Alam	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Yusuf Salahuddin	Rashtriya Janata Dal

^by-election

Election results

1977-2010

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Simri Bakhtirapur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RJD	Yusuf Salahuddin	75684	38.48
	LJP	Sanjay Kumar Singh	6992	3.54
	VIP	Mukesh Sahani	73925	37.81
	NOTA	None of the above	1408	0.72
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

References

^ ^a ^b "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.
^ "Sonbarsa Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ Zee News (25 October 2019). "By-election results 2019: List of winners in 51 Assembly and Satara, Samastipur". Archived from the original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
^ "Bihar – Simri bakhtiarpur". Bihar Assembly Elections Nov 2010 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
^ "119 - Simri-Bakhtiarpur Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 January 2011.