Chapra, Bihar Assembly constituency

For the constituency in West Bengal, see Chapra, West Bengal Assembly constituency. For disambiguation, see Chapra.

Chapra, Bihar
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Saran
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

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

Overview

Chhapra assembly seat has a unique distinction of electing either a Rajput or Yadav since 1967 belonging to various parties. The dominating caste, after delimitation is Vaishya which accounts for 65,000 of the 2.89 lakh voters. The vaishya community has 10-12% population in Chhapra.

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 118 Chapra Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chhapra municipality and Naini, Fakuli, Karinga, Sadha, Mouna, Tenua and Barhara Mahaji gram panchayats of Chapra community development block; Rivilganj CD Block.^[3]

Chapra Assembly constituency is part of No. 20 Saran (Lok Sabha constituency).^[3] It was earlier part of Chapra (Lok Sabha constituency). Chhapra assembly seat had a unique distinction of electing either a Rajput or Yadav since 1965 till 2014 belonging to various parties.^[4] Randhir Kumar Singh (RJD) won the by-poll from Chhapra in 2014.^[5][6] First time, a non-Yadav non-Rajput Dr. C. N. Gupta (BJP) won from assembly seat in 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.^[7][8][9]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[10]	Party
1957	Prabhunath Singh		Indian National Congress
	Jaglal Chaudhary
1962	Sundri Devi
1967	Uday Pratap N Singh		Jana Sangh
1969	Janak Yadav		Praja Socialist Party
1972			Indian National Congress
1977	Mithlesh Kumar Singh		Janata Party
1980	Janak Yadav
1985			Independent politician
1990	Udit Rai
1995			Janata Dal
2000			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ram Parvash Rai		Janata Dal
2005
2010	Janardan Singh Sigriwal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2014^	Randhir Kumar Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015	C. N. Gupta		Bharatiya Janata Party
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Chapra, Bihar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	C. N. Gupta	75,710	44.97
	RJD	Randhir Kumar Singh	68,939	40.95
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,920	1.14
Majority			6,771	4.02
Turnout			168,361	50.99
Registered electors			330,176	[11]
	BJP hold		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Chapra, Bihar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	C. N. Gupta	71,646	45.27
	RJD	Randhir Kumar Singh	60,267	38.08
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,488	2.2
Majority			11,379	7.19
Turnout			158,247	51.87
Registered electors			305,079	[11]
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing

2014 by-election

Bihar Assembly election, 2010: Chapra, Bihar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Randhir Kumar Singh
	Independent	C. N. Gupta
	BJP	Kanhaiya Singh
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors				[11]
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing

References

1. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India.
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. "RSS activist joins fray against BJP in Chhapra". The Times of India.
5. "Saffron party struggles to keep flock together".
6. The RJD's Randhir Singh took advantage of the split and won the seat.
7. Chhapra seat 2015
8. IANS. "BJP legislator being probed over Bihar communal tension | Business Standard News". Business-standard.com. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
9. "Caste stands in way of development in Chhapra | Patna News - Times of India". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 20 October 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
10. "Chapra Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
11. "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.

External links

• "Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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