About Baniapur Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency
Baniapur is a legislative assembly constituency of Bihar and is represented by RJD's Kedar Nath Singh in the state assembly. Kedar Nath Singh won the seat in the assembly elections held in November 2015 having bagged 69,851 votes. He defeated Tarkeshwar Singh of BJP, who fell short of him by 15,951 votes. RJD had won the Baniapur seat in the 2010 Bihar Election as well.
Baniapur is home to 3,01,115 voters. They comprise of 1,63,050 males, 1,38,061 females, and 4 third gender. The polling percentage for the 2015 Bihar Election was 53.63 %. The next election is scheduled to take place from October 28 to November 10, 2020.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Baniapur Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Baniapur assembly elections conducted so far.
Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
2020 | 115 | Baniapur | GEN | Kedar Nath Singh | M | RJD | 65194 | Virendra Kumar Ojha | M | VIP | 37405 |
2015 | 115 | Baniapur | GEN | Kedar Nath Singh | M | RJD | 69851 | Tarkeshwar Singh | M | BJP | 53900 |
2010 | 115 | Baniapur | GEN | Kedar Nath Singh | M | RJD | 45259 | Virendra Kumar Ojha | M | JD(U) | 41684 |
2005-10-01 | 36 | Baniapur | GEN | Manoranjan Singh | M | JD(U) | 32440 | Uma Pandey | F | INC | 29787 |
2005-02-01 | 36 | Baniapur | GEN | Manoranjan Singh | M | LJP | 32724 | Ram Bahadur Rai | M | RJD | 24618 |
2000 | 36 | Baniapur | GEN | Manoranjan Singh | M | IND | 37926 | Ram Bahadur Rai | M | RJD | 35837 |
1995 | 36 | Baniapur | GEN | Ram Bahadur Rai | M | JD | 32479 | Uma Pandey | F | INC | 31202 |
1990 | 36 | Baniapur | GEN | Ram Bahadur Rai | M | JNP(JP) | 24191 | Uma Pandey | F | INC | 23593 |
1985 | 36 | Baniapur | GEN | Uma Pnadey | F | INC | 19781 | Ram Bahadur Ray | M | IND | 17031 |
1980 | 36 | Baniapur | GEN | Uma Pandey | F | INC(I) | 22228 | Rama Kant Pandey | M | BJP | 16916 |
1977 | 36 | Baniapur | GEN | Rama Kant Pandey | M | JNP | 33336 | Uma Pandey | F | INC | 10529 |
1972 | 38 | Baniapur | GEN | Uma Pandey | M | INC | 43650 | Surya Singh | M | NCO | 9871 |
1969 | 38 | Baniapur | GEN | Ramanand Mishra | M | SSP | 22770 | Uma Pande | F | INC | 20525 |
1967 | 38 | Baniapur | GEN | U. Pandey | F | INC | 19430 | R. Mishra | M | SSP | 12416 |
1962 | 42 | Baniapur | GEN | Uma Pandey | F | INC | 12979 | Triguna Singh | M | SWA | 11027 |
1957 | 37 | Baniapur | GEN | Uma Pandey | F | INC | 13666 | Sukhdeo Prasad | M | IND | 7383 |
1951 | 75 | Baniapur | GEN | Bishwa Nath Mishra | M | INC | 12062 | Jugeshwar Pd. | M | IND | 7609 |
Last Updated on Aug 10, 2021