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Tarapur Assembly constituency
Tarapur Assembly constituency
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Munger
LS constituency	Jamui
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Rajeev Kumar Singh
Party	Janata Dal (United)
Elected year	2021

Tarapur Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of the legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Jamui (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1] This assembly constituency contains Tarapur Block. The region is dominated by Kushwahas. In the elections of Mukhiya and the President (Pramukh) of the Block, the probability of the victory of candidates belonging to this caste group remains high. In 2022, the polls were conducted for the membership of Zila Parishad and Mukhiya, and out of ten posts of Mukhia, five were won by the candidate belonging to Kushwaha community. The two posts of member of Zila Parishad also went to candidates from the same community.^[2]^[3]

Overview

Tarapur comprises CD Blocks Asarganj, Tarapur, Tetiha Bamber & Sangrampur; Gram Panchayats Ramankabad (West), Ramankabad (East), Majhgyan, Murade, Gangata, Dariyapur-1 & 2 & Kharagpur (NA) of Kharagpur CD Block.^[4] The constituency is dominated by the backward castes and in this constituency, the candidates belonging to Kushwaha caste has been winning consecutively for decades. Veteran politician Shakuni Choudhary was elected from this constituency for six times. He won as an independent candidate for the first time in 1985, and in his last election in 2010, he was defeated by Neeta Chaudhary of Janata Dal (United). Even before Shakuni Chaudhary, Tarini Prasad Singh, who also belonged to Kushwaha caste, was elected from this constituency twice. In 2015, Mewalal Chaudhary, husband of former legislator Neeta Chaudhary contested against Shakuni Chaudhary, who was a candidate of Hindustani Awam Morcha then. Latter was defeated and Mewalal was victorious in 2015 elections. Mewalal Chaudhary was re-elected in 2020 Assembly elections and following his death in 2021, a bypoll was conducted in the constituency in the year 2021. In this bypoll, Rajiv Kumar Singh was declared winner.^[5]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member^[6]
1952	Basukinath Rai	Indian National Congress
1957	Basukinath Rai
1962	Jaimangal Singh
1967	B. N. Parsant	Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Tarini Prasad Singh	Shoshit Dal
1972	Tarini Prasad Singh	Indian National Congress
1977	Kaushalaya Devi	Janata Party
1980	Narayan Yadav	Communist Party of India
1985	Shakuni Choudhury	Independent
1990		Indian National Congress
1995		Samta Party
2000		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2005
2010	Neeta Choudhary	Janata Dal (United)
2015	Mewalal Chaudhary
2020	Mewalal Chaudhary
2021^^[7]	Rajeev Kumar Singh

^by-election

Election results

2021 by-election

By-election, 2021: Tarapur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Rajeev Kumar Singh	79,090	46.62	+9.69
	RJD	Arun Kumar Sah	75,238	44.35	+11.55
	LJP	Kumar Chandan	5,364	3.16	−3.23
	INC	Rajesh Kumar Mishra	3,590	2.12	New
Margin of victory
Turnout			1,69,759	51.65
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Tarapur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Mewalal Chaudhary	64,468	36.93
	RJD	Divya Prakash	57,243	32.80
	LJP	Mina Devi	11,264	6.45
	RLSP	Jitendra Kumar	5,110	2.93
	NOTA	None of the above	1,534	0.88
Majority			7,225	4.17
Turnout			1,74,783	55.08
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Tarapur^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Mewalal Chaudhary	66,411	45.27
	HAM(S)	Shakuni Choudhury	54,464	37.13
	NOTA	None of the above	5,565	3.66
	JMM	Sanjay Kumar	5,017	3.30
	IND	Karmvir Kumar Bharathi	3,971	2.61
Majority			11,947	8.14
Turnout			1,52,292	52.66
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Tarapur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Neeta Choudhary	44,582	37.42
	RJD	Shakuni Choudhary	30,704	25.77
	INC	Sanjay Kumar	18,282	15.35
	JMM	Raman Kumar	9,167	7.69
	JPS	Sumitra Devi	4,089	3.43
Majority			13,878	11.65
Turnout			1,19,133	47.35
	JD(U) gain from RJD		Swing