Narkatia Assembly Elections 2015

Narkatia Assembly Election Candidates List and Results

Name of the Candidate Party Name Result
SHAMIM AHMADRashtriya Janata Dal75118
SANT SINGH KUSHWAHARashtriya Lok Samta Party55136
SONU KUMARIndependent12890
SUNIL KUMARIndependent2750
DINESH PRASADCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)2177
ANWAR ALAM ANSARIBahujan Samaj Party1991
REETA DEVIIndependent969
MADAN PRASAD YADAVSamajwadi Party968
SHAMBHU SHARAN PRASADJammu & Kashmir National Panthers Party725
RAHUL KUMARIndependent659
DEEPAK KUMARGareeb Aadmi Party623
ASHOK GUPTAIndependent503
None of the AboveNone of the Above8938

Narkatia Assembly Elections Schedule

AC No Category Poll Phases Last Date of Nominations Date of Polls Result
12 GEN Phase IV Oct 7th 2015 Nov 1st 2015 Nov 8th 2015

About Narkatia Assembly Elections Constituency

Narkatia assembly constituencies is located in the eastern Champaran district. The constituency covers Banjaria, Chhauradano (Narkatia) and Bankatwa community development blocks. The assembly segment of Narkatia has a total of 2,32,800 eligible electors. of whom there are 1,25,166 male and 1,07,634 female.

Electoral History of Narkatia Constituency in Bihar

  One of the nine assembly segments located in the Paschim Champaran district of Bihar, Narkatia assembly constituency is currently being represented by Rashmi Verma who retained the seat for the BJP by defeating her nearest Congress rival Fakhruddin Khan by a margin of 15,742 votes in a byepoll held on 21st August in 2014, necessitated due to the election of its sitting BJP MLA Satish Chandra Dubey to the Lok Sabha from the Valmiki Nagar parliamentary constituency. While Rashmi Verma got 64,602 votes, Fakhruddin Khan got 48,860 votes.

   Out of the ten assembly seats that went to the polls in the bye-elections which took place after the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won 6 whereas the RJD and the JD(U) was victorious on 3 and 2 seats respectively. The Congress won one seats.

  In 2010, while the congress had won only four seats in Bihar, the BJP which contested the elections in alliance with the JD (U) managed to claim 91 seats, while the latter emerged victorious from 115 constituencies. The RJD put up a dismal performance with only 22 seats. However, as things stand today, the BJP and the JD (U) have parted ways and the Lok Janashakti Party (LJP), the ally of the RJD in the last assembly elections, is now a part of the BJP led NDA, the ruling dispensation at the Centre. The RJD, the JD (U) and the Congress have come together to stop the BJP from coming to power in Bihar.

  Earlier Narkatia assembly constituency, which came into being before the last general assembly elections in Bihar in 2010, was won in that year by Satish Chandra Dubey who had defeated Alok Prasad Verma of the Congress by a margin of 20228 votes. While 45022 votes were polled in favour of Satish Chandra Dubey, Alok Prasad Verma, husband of Rashmi Verma, received 24794 votes and was closely followed by Fakhruddin Khan, then an Independent candidate, with 22381 votes. Majhar Alam, who entered the contest on the Lalu Prasad led Rrashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), came fourth with 8243 votes.

  Narkatia is one of the six assembly constituencies that combine to form the parliamentary constituency of Valmiki Nagar which is currently represented by Satish Chandra Dubey of the BJP who won the seat by defeating his nearest Congress rival PURNMASI RAM by a margin of 117793 votes in the last Lok Sabha elections in 2014.

  Other five assembly constituencies are Lauriya, Valmiki Nagar, Ramnagar, Bagaha and Sikta.

Narkatia Assembly Election News 2015

RLSP will find it tough

Updated on : Oct-6,2015

Sant Singh Kushwaha of RLSP is pitted against Shamim Ahmad of RJD in the constituency which is part of East Champaran district of Bihar. In the first ever election held in the constituency in November 2010, Shyam Bihari Prasad of the JD(U) was elected as the MLA by winning 31,549 votes. Yasmin Sabir Ali of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) got 23,861 votes in his favour. Two main poll planks -- development issues and cast matrix -- will play a crucial role in Narkata, apart from trade relations with Nepal which have hit a road block.

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