Katihar Lok Sabha constituency
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Katihar Lok Sabha constituency | |
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Lok Sabha Constituency | |
Incumbent | Dulal Chandra Goswami |
Parliamentary Party | Janata Dal (United) |
Elected Year | 2019 |
Constituency Details | |
Established | 1957 |
Reservation | None |
State | Bihar |
Most Successful Party | Indian National Congress (7 times) |
Assembly Constituencies | Katihar Kadwa Balrampur Pranpur Manihari Barari |
Katihar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India.
Vidhan Sabha segments[edit]
Presently, Katihar Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:
Constituency number | Name | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) | District | MLA | Party | Party Leading (in 2019) |
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63 | Katihar | None | Katihar | Tarkishore Prasad | BJP | JD(U) |
64 | Kadwa | None | Katihar | Shakeel Ahmad Khan | INC | JD(U) |
65 | Balrampur | None | Katihar | Mahbub Alam | CPI(ML)L | INC |
66 | Pranpur | None | Katihar | Nisha Singh | BJP | JD(U) |
67 | Manihari | ST | Katihar | Manohar Prasad Singh | INC | JD(U) |
68 | Barari | None | Katihar | Bijay Singh | JD(U) | JD(U) |
Members of Lok Sabha[edit]
The following is the list of the Members of Parliament elected from this Lok Sabha constituency:[1][2]
Election | Name | Party | |
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1957 | Avadhesh Kumar Singh | Indian National Congress | |
1958^ | Bhola Nath Biswas | ||
1962 | Priya Gupta | Praja Socialist Party | |
1967 | Sitaram Kesri | Indian National Congress | |
1971 | Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
1977 | Yuvraj | Janata Party | |
1980 | Tariq Anwar | Indian National Congress | |
1984 | |||
1989 | Yuvraj | Janata Dal | |
1991 | Mohammad Yunus Saleem | ||
1996 | Tariq Anwar | Indian National Congress | |
1998 | |||
1999 | Nikhil Kumar Choudhary | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2004 | |||
2009 | |||
2014 | Tariq Anwar | Nationalist Congress Party | |
2019 | Dulal Chandra Goswami | Janata Dal (United) |
^ by-poll
Election results[edit]
2019 general elections[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
JD(U) | Dulal Chandra Goswami | 5,59,423 | 50.05 | ||
INC | Shah Tariq Anwar | 5,02,220 | 44.93 | ||
NCP | Muhammad Shakur | 9,248 | 0.83 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 20,584 | 1.84 | ||
Majority | 57,203 | 5.12 | |||
Turnout | 11,18,289 | 67.64 | |||
JD(U) gain from NCP | Swing |
2014 general elections[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NCP | Tariq Anwar [3] | 4,31,292 | 44.11 | +8.81 | |
BJP | Nikhil Kumar Choudhary | 3,16,552 | 32.37 | -4.86 | |
JD(U) | Dr. Ram Prakash Mahto | 1,00,765 | 10.30 | +10.30 | |
JMM | Baleshwar Marandi | 33,593 | 3.44 | +3.44 | |
IND. | Ashok Ku. Bhagat | 15,547 | 1.59 | +1.59 | |
IND. | Kanhai Mandal | 10,516 | 1.08 | +1.08 | |
CPI(ML)L | Mahbub Alam | 9,461 | 0.97 | -3.45 | |
Majority | 1,14,740 | 11.74 | |||
Turnout | 9,77,830 | 67.60 | |||
NCP gain from BJP | Swing |
2009 general elections[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Nikhil Kumar Choudhary | 2,69,834 | 37.23 | ||
NCP | Shah Tariq Anwar | 2,55,819 | 35.30 | ||
LJP | Ahmad Ashfaque Karim | 45,773 | 6.32 | ||
IND. | Himraj Singh | 42,026 | 5.80 | ||
[[Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)|Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)/meta/shortname]] | Mahboob Alam | 32,035 | 4.42 | ||
IND. | Mohammad Hamid Mubarak | 23,894 | 3.30 | ||
Majority | 14,015 | 1.93 | |||
Turnout | 7,24,802 | 56.95 | |||
BJP hold | Swing |
1971 general elections[edit]
- Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav (BJS) : 96,422 votes [4]
- Sita Ram Kesri (Congress) : 83,533