Araria Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Araria district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Overview As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 49 Araria Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Araria (community development block) including Araria nagar parishad.
Araria Assembly constituency is part of No 9 Araria (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).
Members of the Legislative Assembly YearNameParty1952Ziaur Rahman Hazi19571962Balkrishna Jha1967Shital Prasad Gupta 19691972Azam1977Srideo Jha1980Taslimuddin1985Halimuddin Ahmed1990Vinod Kumar Roy1995Vijay Kumar Mandal20002005Pradeep Kumar Singh 20052009^Vijay Kumar Mandal 2010Zakir Hussain Khan2015Avidur Rahman 20202025 ^by-election
Election results 2025
2020
2015
2010 In the November 2010 state assembly elections, Zakir Hussain Khan of LJP won the Araria assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Narayan Kumar Jha of BJP. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners up are being mentioned. Pradeep Kumar Singh of BJP defeated Moidur Rahman of Congress in October 2005 and February 2005. Vijay Kumar Mandal, Independent, defeated Moidur Rahman of Congress in 2000. Vijay Kumar Mandal of BPP defeated Durga Das Rathore of BJP in 1995. Vinod Kumar Roy, Independent, defeated Nand Kishore Mandal, Independent, in 1990. Halimuddin Ahmed of Congress defeated Nand Kishore Mandal of LD in 1985. Mohd. Taslimuddin of Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) defeated Shrideo Jha of Congress in 1980. Srideo Jha of Congress defeated Deo Narayan Mishra of JP in 1977.
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