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Paliganj Assembly constituency
Paliganj Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 190 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Patna
LS constituency	Pataliputra
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Sandeep Yadav
Party	CPI(ML)L
Elected year	2020

Paliganj Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Danapur, Maner, Phulwari, Masaurhi and Bikram.^[1]

Overview edit

Paliganj in Patna district

Paliganj comprises CD Blocks Dulhin Bazar & Paliganj.^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly edit

Year	Name^[3]
1952	Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav	Indian National Congress
1957	Chandradeo Prasad Verma	Praja Socialist Party
1962	Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav	Indian National Congress
1967	Chandradeo Prasad Verma	Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Chandradeo Prasad Verma	Samyukta Socialist Party
1972	Kanhai Singh	Indian National Congress (O)
1977	Kanhai Singh	Independent
1980	Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav	Indian National Congress (U)
1985		Indian National Congress
1990		Indian National Congress
1991^	Chandradeo Prasad Verma	Janata Dal
1995	Chandradeo Prasad Verma	Janata Dal
1996^	Janardan Sharma	Bharatiya Janata Party
2000	Dinanath Singh Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Nand Kumar Nanda	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation
2005	Nand Kumar Nanda	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation
2010	Usha Vidyarthi	Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Jai Vardhan Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Sandeep Yadav	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation

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Election Results edit

2020 edit

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Paliganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(ML)L	Sandeep Yadav	67,917	43.73
	JD(U)	Jai Vardhan Yadav	37,002	23.83
	LJP	Usha Vidyarthi	16,102	10.37
	RLSP	Madhu Manjari	5,467	3.52
	Independent	Sunil Kumar	5,261	3.39
	Independent	Gopal Chaudhari	4,444	2.86
	NOTA	None of the above	1,881	1.21
		Rest of the candidates	~16,500	10.00
Majority			30,915
Turnout
	CPI(ML)L gain from RJD		Swing

2015 edit

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Paliganj constituency^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RJD	Jai Vardhan Yadav	65,932	45.08
	BJP	Ram Janm Sharma	41,479	28.36
	CPI(ML)L	Anwar Husain	19,438	13.29
Turnout			146,255	55.76
Registered electors			262,289
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing

References edit

^ "Pataliputra Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
^ "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.
^ "Paliganj (Bihar) Assembly Election Results 2015 - Winner and Runner-up Candidates". www.elections.in. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
^ "Bihar 2015". Election Commission of India.