Gaighat Assembly constituency

Coordinates: 26°05′06″N 85°40′01″E / 26.08500°N 85.66694°E / 26.08500; 85.66694
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Gaighat
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Gaighat is located in Bihar
Gaighat
Gaighat
Location in Bihar
Coordinates: 26°05′06″N 85°40′01″E / 26.08500°N 85.66694°E / 26.08500; 85.66694
Country India
StateBihar
DistrictMuzaffarpur
Constituency No.88
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency15. Muzaffarpur
Electoral systemFirst past the post

Gaighat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (earlier called Gaighatti) is an assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 88 Gaighat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Gaighat and Bandra community development blocks; Katra, Sonpur, Berai South, Dhanaur, Madhepura and Shivdaspur gram panchayats of Katra CD Block.[1]

Gaighat (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 15 Muzaffarpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Member of Legislative Assembly

Year Member Political Party
style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | 1967 Nitishwar Prasad Sinha Indian National Congress
style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | 1969 Nitishwar Prasad Sinha Indian National Congress
style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | 1972 Nitishwar Prasad Sinha Indian National Congress
style="background-color: Template:Janata Party/meta/color" | 1977 Vinodanand Singh Janata Party
style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | 1980 Jitendra Prasad Singh Bhartiya Janata Party
style="background-color: Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color" | 1985 Virendra Kumar Singh Indian National Congress
style="background-color: Template:Independent/meta/color" | 1990 Maheshwar Prasad Yadav IND
style="background-color: Template:Janata Dal/meta/color" | 1995 Maheshwar Prasad Yadav Janata Dal
style="background-color: Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" | 2000 Veerendra Kumar Singh JDU
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color" | 2005(Feb) Maheshwar Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color" | 2005(Nov) Maheshwar Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | 2010 Veena Devi Bhartiya Janata Party
style="background-color: Template:Rashtriya Janata Dal/meta/color" | 2015 Maheshwar Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal
TBA 2020 TBA TBA

Election Results

Assembly Elections 2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Gaighat
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Maheshwar Prasad Yadav
LJP Komal Singh
RJD Niranjan Rai
NOTA None of the above
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing

References

  1. ^ 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.