| Kumhrar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 183 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Patna |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Patna Sahib |
| Established | 2008 |
| Total electors | 431,390 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | BJP |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2025 |
Kumhrar is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency.[1] In the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Kumhrar was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[2][3] Kumhrar was initially called Patna Central assembly constituency, but after delimitation it was renamed as Kumhrar assembly constituency.[4] This Constituency and seat is dominated by Kayastha Caste.
Overview
Kumhrar comprises Ward Nos. 14 & 16 to 22 in PMC and OG of Patna Rural CD Block.[5]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Name[6] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
Before 2008: See Patna Central | |||
| 2010 | Arun Kumar Sinha | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2015 | |||
| 2020 | |||
| 2025 | Sanjay Kumar Gupta | ||
Election results
2025
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sanjay Kumar Gupta | 100,485 | 57.91 |  3.91 | |
| INC | Indradeep Chandravanshi | 52,961 | 30.52 | ||
| JSP | Prof. K. C. Sinha | 15,017 | 8.66 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,278 | 0.74 |  0.29 | |
| Majority | 47,524 | 27.39 | 9.83 | ||
| Turnout | 173,506 | 40.22 | 4.95 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2020
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Arun Kumar Sinha | 81,400 | 54.0 | −2.25 | |
| RJD | Dharamendra Kumar | 54,937 | 36.44 | ||
| JAP(L) | Rajesh Ranjan Pappu | 4,333 | 2.87 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,558 | 1.03 | +0.48 | |
| Majority | 26,463 | 17.56 | −6.32 | ||
| Turnout | 150,744 | 35.27 | −2.94 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2015
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Arun Kumar Sinha | 87,792 | 56.25 | ||
| INC | Aquil Haider | 50,517 | 32.37 | ||
| SS | Sumit Ranjan Sinha | 3,123 | 2.0 | ||
| Independent | Ajay Verma | 2,964 | 1.9 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 860 | 0.55 | ||
| Majority | 37,275 | 23.88 | |||
| Turnout | 156,067 | 38.21 | |||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2010
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Arun Kumar Sinha | 83,425 | 72.04 | ||
| LJP | Md. Kamal Parwez | 15,617 | 13.49 | ||
| INC | Kapildeo Prasad Yadav | 9,254 | 7.99 | ||
| CPI(M) | Bindeshwari Prasad | 1,618 | 1.40 | ||
| Independent | Balram Patel | 874 | 0.75 | ||
| Majority | 67,808 | 58.55 | |||
| Turnout | 1,15,804 | 37.33 | |||
| BJP win (new seat) | |||||
See also
References
- Kumhrar Assembly Constituency 20 December 2013
- "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India. 2 October 2015.
- "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
- "Battle enters final stage". Archived from the original on 11 October 2015.
- "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 20 December 2013.
- "Kumhrarh Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
- "2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election Results: Kumhrar". Election Commission of India. 14 November 2025. Archived from the original on 11 December 2025. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. 13 January 2021.
External links
- "Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
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