Bettiah (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Bettiah
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Bettiah is located in Bihar
Bettiah
Bettiah
Location in Bihar
Coordinates: 26°48′N 84°30′E / 26.800°N 84.500°E / 26.800; 84.500Coordinates: 26°48′N 84°30′E / 26.800°N 84.500°E / 26.800; 84.500
Country India
StateBihar
DistrictPaschim Champaran
Constituency No8
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency2. Paschim Champaran
Electoral systemFirst past the post

Bettiah Vidhan Sabha constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Bettiah will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[1][2]

Overview[edit]

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 8. Bettiah (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Bettiah community development block; and Mohaddipur, Majhaulia, Parsa, Bahuarawa, Gudara, Jaukatia, Bakharia, Rulahi, Rajabhar, Karamawa, Lal Saraiya, Ramnagar Bankat, Amawa Majhar, Majharia Sheikh, Ahawar Kuria, Madhopur, Senuwaria and Bishambharpur gram panchayats of Majhaulia CD Block.[3]

Bettiah (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of 2. Paschim Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency).[3] It was earlier part of Bettiah (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of Vidhan Sabha[edit]

Year Member Political Party
1952 Prajapati Mishra [4] Indian National Congress
1952
(By-Polls)
Ketaki Devi Indian National Congress
1957 Jaya Narayan Prasad Indian National Congress
Jagannath Pd. Swatantra Indian National Congress
1962 Jay Narayan Prasad Indian National Congress
1967 H.P. Shahi Independent
1969 Gauri Shankar Pandey Indian National Congress
1972 Kirshna Mohan Pandey Indian National Congress
1977 Gauri Shankar Pandey Indian National Congress
1980 Gauri Shankar Pandey Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Gauri Shankar Pandey Indian National Congress
1990 Madan Prasad Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party
1995 Birval Yadava Janata Dal
2000 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party
FEB-2005 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party
NOV-2005 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party
2010 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party
2015 Madan Mohan Tiwari [5] Indian National Congress
2020 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results[edit]

Assembly Elections 2020[edit]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bettiah
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Renu Devi
INC Madan Mohan Tiwari
style="background-color: Template:Plurals Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" | [[Plurals Party|Template:Plurals Party/meta/shortname]] Awakash Gupta
NOTA None of the above
Majority
Turnout
[[|N/A]] gain from [[|N/A]] Swing

Assembly Elections 2015[edit]

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bettiah
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Madan Mohan Tiwari 66,786 45.26
BJP Renu Devi 64,466 43.69
Independent Sameer Hasan 2,851 1.93
NOTA None Of The Above 1,918 1.30
Majority 2,320 1.57
Turnout 1,47,836 59.35
INC gain from BJP Swing

Assembly Elections 2010[edit]

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bettiah
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Renu Devi 42,010 39.57
Independent Anil Kumar Jha 13,221 12.45
INC Madan Mohan Tiwari 12,499 11.77
LJP Virval Yadav 11,511 10.84
Majority 28,789 27.12
Turnout 1,06,163 55.25
BJP hold Swing

References[edit]

  1. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India.
  2. "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
  3. 3.0 3.1 "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.
  4. https://www.elections.in/bihar/assembly-constituencies/1951-election-results.html
  5. https://resultuniversity.com/election/bettiah-bihar-assembly-constituency