About Motihari Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency
Motihari is one of the 243 legislative assembly segments of Bihar. The constituency of Motihari is located in the Purvi Champaran district of Bihar. The Piprakothi community development block and Motihari community development block are the areas that the Motihari assembly segment consists of as per the implementation of the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of 2008.
Motihari has one of the strongest electoral rolls amongst all the assembly constituencies of the state with 2,63,092 eligible voters. There are 1,42,800 men and 1,20,286 women who are eligible to exercise their voting rights. BJP member Pramod Kumar is the sitting MLA of the Motihari constituency. In the 2010 assembly elections, Pramod Kumar won 51,588 votes and beat Rajesh Gupta Alias Bablu Gupta of RJD who bagged 27,358 votes. Earlier a part of Motihari Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency, the Motihari assembly segment now belongs to the Purvi Champaran parliamentary constituency.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Motihari Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Motihari assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
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| 2015 | 19 | Motihari | GEN | Pramod Kumar | M | BJP | 92733 | Omprakash Chaudaray | M | RJD | 78088 |
| 2015 | 19 | Motihari | GEN | Pramod Kumar | M | BJP | 79947 | Binod Kumar Shrivastava | M | RJD | 61430 |
| 2010 | 19 | Motihari | GEN | Pramod Kumar | M | BJP | 51888 | Rajesh Gupta Alias Bablu Gupta | M | RJD | 27358 |
| OCT 2005 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | Pramod Kumar | M | BJP | 56119 | Rama Devi | F | RJD | 35416 |
| FEB 2005 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | Pramod Kumar | M | BJP | 46595 | Rama Devi | M | RJD | 33258 |
| 2000 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | Rama Devi | F | RJD | 78657 | Pramod Kumar | M | BJP | 44090 |
| 1995 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | Triveni Tiwary | M | CPI | 52684 | Laxman Prasad | M | BJP | 33498 |
| 1990 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | Triveni Tiwari | M | CPI | 26280 | Laxman Parsad | M | BJP | 25195 |
| 1985 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | Triveni Tiwari | M | CPI | 32408 | Rajendra Prasad | M | INC | 12711 |
| 1980 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | Prabhawati Gupta | F | INC(I) | 25390 | Triveni Tiwari | M | CPI | 23857 |
| 1977 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | Prabhawati Gupta | F | INC | 29282 | Raghunath Gupta | M | JNP | 13829 |
| 1972 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | Prabhawati Gupta | M | INC | 20674 | Chandrika Pd. Yadav | M | BJS | 13883 |
| 1969 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | Ram Sewak Prasad Jayaswal | M | INC | 14604 | Chandrika Prasad Yadav | M | BJS | 10289 |
| 1967 | 12 | Motihari | GEN | C.P. Yadav | M | BJS | 18838 | S. Devi | M | INC | 6531 |
| 1962 | 18 | Motihari | GEN | Shakuntla Devi | F | INC | 15576 | Suryadeo Narain Gupta | M | IND | 9119 |
| 1957 | 10 | Motihari | (SC) | Bigoo Ram | M | INC | 19801 | Sant Sewak Pd. | M | PSP | 4974 |
| 1957 | 10 | Motihari | (SC) | Shakuntala Devi | F | INC | 22491 | Kamal Pd. Singh | M | CNPSPJP | 6043 |
Last Updated on Aug 13, 2021