Biharsharif Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Bihar legislative assembly in India

Biharsharif
Constituency No. 172 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Nalanda
LS constituency	Nalanda
Established	1951 (as South Bihar) 1962 (as North Bihar) 1967 (as Biharsharif)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Dr. Sunil Kumar
Party	BJP
Elected year	2020

Biharsharif Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a part of Nalanda Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Islampur, Harnaut, Hilsa, Nalanda, Asthawan and Rajgir.^[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Biharsharif will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2]^[3]

Overview

Biharsharif comprises CD Block Rahui & Bihar (M).^[4] Although Nalanda district has a substantial Kurmi population across all the assembly constituencies falling within this district, Biharsharif is a Koeri dominated constituency. It was represented for four terms by Sunil Kumar of Bharatiya Janata Party from the same caste group.^[5]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member^[6]
1952	Md. Aquil Syed	Indian National Congress
1957	Md. Aquil Syed
1960^	Syed Wasiuddin Ahmad
1962	Syed Wasiuddin Ahmad
1967	B. P. Jawahar	Communist Party of India
1969	B. P. Jawahar	Communist Party of India
1972	Virendra Prasad	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977	Deo Nath Prasad	Communist Party of India
1980	Deo Nath Prasad	Communist Party of India
1985	Shakeel Uzzaman Ansari	Indian National Congress
1990	Deo Nath Prasad	Bharatiya Janata Party
1995	Deo Nath Prasad	Janata Dal
2000	Syed Naushad Un Nabi	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Sunil Kumar	Janata Dal
2005
2010
2015		Bharatiya Janata Party
2020		Bharatiya Janata Party

^by-election

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Biharsharif
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sunil Kumar	81,888	44.55	+1.82
	RJD	Sunil Kumar	66,786	36.34	New
	Independent	Afreen Sultana	13,443	7.31
Majority			15,102	8.21
Turnout			1,83,793	48.51	-2.65
Registered electors				^[7]
	BJP hold		Swing

2015

Bihar assembly elections, 2015: Biharsharif^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sunil Kumar	76,201	44.01
	JD(U)	Mohammad Asghar Shamim	73,861	42.72
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors
	BJP gain from JD(U)		Swing

References

^ "Nalanda Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India.
^ "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.
^ "Will Ram Navami Communal Tensions Help BJP's Political Goal in Bihar". the wire. Archived from the original on 20 April 2023. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
^ "Asthawan Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
^ "Constituencywise-All Candidates". Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2015.