Forbesganj Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Forbesganj
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Araria
Established	1951
Reservation	None

Elected year	2020

Forbesganj Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Araria district in the Indian state of Bihar. Vidyasagar Kesari is the MLA of Forbesganj assembly constituency elected in 2015 and 2020.

History

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 48 Forbesganj Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Forbesganj community development block.^[1]

Forbesganj Assembly constituency is part of No 9 Araria (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Forbesganj was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2]^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[4]
1952	Bokai Mandal	Indian National Congress
1957	Dumar Lal Baitha
1957	Shital Prasad Gupta
1962	Saryu Mishra	Praja Socialist Party
1967		Indian National Congress
1969
1972
1977
1980		Indian National Congress
1985		Indian National Congress
1990	Mayanand Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party
1995	Mayanand Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party
2000	Zakir Hussain Khan	Bahujan Samaj Party
2005	Laxmi Narayan Mehta	Bharatiya Janata Party
2005	Laxmi Narayan Mehta
2010	Padam Parag Roy
2015	Vidya Sagar Keshri
2020	Vidya Sagar Keshri

Election results

1977-2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections, Padam Parag Roy Venu of BJP won the Forbesganj assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Maya Nand Thakur of LJP.^[5] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Laxmi Narayan Mehta of BJP defeated Zakir Hussain Khan of RJD in October 2005 and February 2005. Zakir Hussain Khan representing BSP defeated Laxmi Narayan Mehta, Independent, in 2000. Mayanand Thakur representing BJP defeated Laxmi Narayan Mehta, Independent, in 1995, and Shital Prasad Gupta of Congress in 1990. Saryu Mishra of Congress defeated Rai Bahadur Keshri of BJP in 1985, Nakshtra Malakar of CPI in 1980 and Lal Chand Sahni of JP.^[6]

Vidyasagar Kesari was first elected in 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, and re-elected in 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.^[7]

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Forbesganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Vidya Sagar Keshri	100,001
	JD(U)
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors				^[8]
	BJP gain from		Swing

References

^ ^a ^b "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 10 January 2011.
^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
^ ""General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg."" (PDF).
^ "Forbesganj Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ "Bihar - Forbesganj". Bihar Assembly Elections Nov 2010 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
^ "129 - Forbesganj Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
^ "bihar assembly election candidates list 2020". NDTV.
^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.