Tarapur Assembly constituency

Tarapur Assembly constituency is one of 243 legislative assemblies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Jamui (Lok Sabha constituency).[1] This assembly constituency contains Tarapur Block. The region is dominated by Kushwahas. In the elections of Mukhiya and the President (Pramukh) of the Block, the probability of the victory of candidates belonging to this caste group remains high. In 2022, the polls were conducted for the membership of Zila Parishad and Mukhiya, and out of ten posts of Mukhia, five were won by the candidate belonging to Kushwaha community. The two posts of member of Zila Parishad also went to candidates from the same community.[2][3]

Tarapur Assembly constituency
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency Details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictMunger
LS ConstituencyJamui
Established1952
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyJanata Dal (United)
AllianceUnited Progressive Alliance (UPA)
Elected year2021

Overview

Tarapur comprises CD Blocks Asarganj, Tarapur, Tetiha Bamber & Sangrampur; Gram Panchayats Ramankabad (West), Ramankabad (East), Majhgyan, Murade, Gangata, Dariyapur-1 & 2 & Kharagpur (NA) of Kharagpur CD Block.[4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year Member[5] Party
1952 Basukinath Rai Indian National Congress
1957
1962 Jaimangal Singh
1967 B. N. Parsant Samyukta Socialist Party
1969Tarni Prasad Singh Shoshit Dal
1972 Indian National Congress
1977Kaushalaya Devi Janata Party
1980Narayan Yadav Communist Party of India
1985Shakuni Choudhury Independent
1990 Indian National Congress
1995 Samta Party
2000 Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2005
2010 Neeta Choudhary Janata Dal (United)
2015Mewalal Chaudhary
2020
2021^ Rajeev Kumar Singh


Election Results

2021 By-election

 
By-election, 2021: Tarapur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Rajeev Kumar Singh 79,090 46.62 +9.69
RJD Arun Kumar Sah 75,238 44.35 +11.55
LJP Kumar Chandan 5,364 3.16 -3.23
INC Rajesh Kumar Mishra 3,590 2.12 New
Margin of victory
Turnout 1,69,759 51.65
JD(U) hold Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Tarapur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Mewalal Chaudhary 64,468 36.93
RJD Divya Prakash 57,243 32.80
LJP Mina Devi 11,264 6.45
RLSP Jitendra Kumar 5,110 2.93
NOTA None of the above 1,534 0.88
Majority 7,225 4.17
Turnout 1,74,783 55.08
JD(U) hold Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Tarapur[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Mewalal Chaudhary 66,411 45.27
HAM-Se Shakuni Choudhury 54,464 37.13
NOTA None of the above 5,565 3.66
JMM Sanjay Kumar 5,017 3.30
IND Karmvir Kumar Bharathi 3,971 2.61
Majority 11,947 8.14
Turnout 1,52,292 52.66
JD(U) hold Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Tarapur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Neeta Choudhary 44,582 37.42
RJD Shakuni Choudhary 30,704 25.77
INC Sanjay Kumar 18,282 15.35
JMM Raman Kumar 9,167 7.69
JPS Sumitra Devi 4,089 3.43
Majority 13,878 11.65
Turnout 1,19,133 47.35
JD(U) gain from RJD Swing

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