Bankipore or Bankipur Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a segment of Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Bankipur was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[1][2]
Overview
Bankipore comprises Ward Nos. 4, 5, 7 to 13 & 15 in Patna Municipal Corporation of Patna Rural CD Block. The constituency has a preponderance of voters belonging to Kayastha in population, in this constituency. [3]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Name[4] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
Before 2008: See Patna West
| |||
| 2010 | Nitin Nabin | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2015 | |||
| 2020 | |||
Election results
2020
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Nitin Nabin | 83,068 | 59.05 | ||
| INC | Luv Sinha | 44,032 | 31.30 | ||
| PP | Pushpam Priya Choudhary | 5,189 | 3.69 | ||
| None of the Above | None of the Above | 1,213 | 0.86 | ||
| Majority | 39,036 | 27.75 | |||
| Turnout | 140,683 | 35.91 | |||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2015
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Nitin Nabin | 86,759 | 60.19 | ||
| INC | Ashish Kumar | 46,992 | 32.60 | ||
| CPI | Shaukat Ali | 1,542 | 1.07 | ||
| BSP | Abhishek Kumar Sinha | 863 | 0.60 | ||
| SP | Ajay Kumar | 708 | 0.49 | ||
| NOTA | None of the Above | 1,021 | 0.71 | ||
| Majority | 39,767 | 27.59 | |||
| Turnout | 1,44,152 | 40.24 | |||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2010
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Nitin Nabin | 78,771 | 72.06 | ||
| RJD | Binod Kumar Srivastava | 17,931 | 16.40 | ||
| INC | Durga Prasad | 6,018 | 5.51 | ||
| NCP | Jakir Hussain | 1,259 | 1.15 | ||
| Independent | Sunita Preetam | 940 | 0.86 | ||
| Majority | 60,840 | 55.66 | |||
| Turnout | 1,09,309 | 36.96 | |||
| BJP win (new seat) | |||||
See also
References
- ^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
- ^ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Bankipur Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
External links
- "Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.