Barhara Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 193 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictBhojpur
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Elected year2020

Barhara Assembly constituency is one of 243 legislative assembly seats of the legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Arrah lok sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz Sandesh, Arrah, Tarari, Jagdishpur, Shahpur and Agiaon (SC).[1]

Area/ Wards

The Barhara Assembly constituency comprises:[2]

  • CD Block Barhara
  • Gram Panchayats: Ijri, Sundarpur Barja, Agarsanda, Baghipakar, Basantpur, Dhamar & Khajuria of Arrah CD Block
  • Gram Panchayats: Khesrahiya, Mathurapur, Rajapur, Daulatpur, Chanda, Gidha, Birampur & Kayam Nagar of the Koilwar CD Block.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The Barhara Assembly constituency was created in 1967. The list of the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Barhara constituency is as follows:

Year Member[3] Party
1952 Ram Vilash Singh Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad
1967 Ambika Sharan Singh Indian National Congress
1969 Mahanth Mahadeva Nand Giri Independent politician
1972 Ram Vilash Singh Indian National Congress
1977 Ambika Sharan Singh Janata Party
1980 Ramjee Prasad Singh Indian National Congress
1985 Raghwendra Pratap Singh Janata Party
1990 Janata Dal
1995
2000 Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Asha Devi Janata Dal
2005
2010 Raghwendra Pratap Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015 Saroj Yadav
2020 Raghwendra Pratap Singh Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Barhara
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Raghwendra Pratap Singh
NOTA None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors [4]
gain from Swing

References

  1. ↑ "Arrah Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "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 20 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Barhara Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  4. ↑ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
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