Benipur Assembly constituency

Benipur
Benipur
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Darbhanga
Established	1967
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Binay kumar Chaudhary
Party	JDU
Elected year	2025

26°02′44″N 86°06′33″E / 26.04556°N 86.10917°E / 26.04556; 86.10917

Benipur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district of Bihar, India. It is 30 km east from Darbhanga city. SH 56 connecting Benipur to Darbhanga City. Neighboring villages are Mahinam, Balha, Benipur, Karhari, Nandapatti, phohddi, Ashapur. Makrampur has a popular Lord Hanuman Temple and there is a famous Nawada Durga Temple both are two of the famous temples of Benipur block. There is a railway station named "Benipur Balha" which is in Balha Village. Benipur Block is heart of benipur because of its popularity for its market. This block is second most big market in 20 square km area. Bahera market is one of the big market areas very adjacent to Benipur. The current mayor is Md Nazim Amin, and the current deputy mayor is Md Saif. Benipur assembly and its surrounding areas are dominated by Brahmin voters. This is why most of the time MLAs from Brahmin caste have been elected from here, here all the parties mostly give tickets to Brahmin candidates for Brahmin votes.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 80 Benipur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Benipur community development block;Baheri CD Block;Biraul CD Block.^[1]

Benipur (Nagar Parisad (Navtoliya Chairman Mateen Mustafa) & Deputy Chairman's Md Nazim Amin (Assembly constituency) is part of No. 14 Darbhanga (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly


Year	Name^[2]
1967	Bhup Narayan Jha	Indian National Congress
1969	Hari Nath Mishra	Lok Tantrik Congress
1972	Hari Nath Mishra	Indian National Congress
1977-2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Gopal Jee Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Sunil Choudhary	Janata Dal (United)
2020	Binay Kumar Choudhary	Janata Dal (United)

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Benipur^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Binay Kumar Choudhary	61,416	37.58
	INC	Mithilesh Kumar Chaudhary	54,826	33.55
	LJP	Kamal Ram Vinod Jha	17,616	10.78
	Independent	Ram Kumar Jha	6,221	3.81
	RLSP	Rajeev Kumar	4,641	2.84
	Independent	Sanjeet Kumar	3,741	2.29
	Independent	Saguni Ray	3,082	1.89
	Wazib Adhikar Party	Nathuni Ram	1,929	1.18
	JAP(L)	Rajesh Kumar Mishra	1,576	0.96
	NOTA	None of the above	4,621	2.83	−0.28
Majority			6,590	4.03	−13.81
Turnout			163,428	56.51	+0.89
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Benipur^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Sunil Chaudhary	69,511	46.88
	BJP	Gopal Jee Thakur	43,068	29.04
	Independent	Kamalramvinod Jha "Kamal Seth"	10,154	6.85
	Independent	Vinod Kumar Jha	6,061	4.09
	Independent	Siyalakhan Yadav	2,459	1.66
	Independent	Sunil Kumar Jha "Moti Babu"	2,340	1.58
	CPI	Ram Naresh Roy	2,299	1.55
	BSP	Laxman Ram	1,685	1.14
	Independent	Vinoda Nand Jha	1,385	0.93
	Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	Krishna Kant Jha	1,350	0.91
	NOTA	None of the above	4,614	3.11
Majority			26,443	17.84
Turnout			148,283	55.62