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Teghra is an assembly constituency in Begusarai district in the Indian state of Bihar.[1] It was earlier called Barauni Assembly constituency.[2]
As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 143 Teghra Assembly constituency is composed of the following:
Teghra Assembly constituency is part of No. 24 Begusarai (Lok Sabha constituency).[4]
Year | Name[5] | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1952 | Ram Charitra Singh | Indian National Congress | |
1957 | |||
1962 | Chandrasekhar Singh | Communist Party of India | |
1967-2008: See Barauni
| |||
2010 | Lalan Kumar | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2015 | Birendra Kumar | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
2020 | Ram Ratan Singh | Communist Party of India |
In 1962, Chandra Shekhar Singh won from Barauni seat as the first Left party member to the state legislative assembly.[6] Since then Teghra has been bastion of CPI till 2010 when it was defeated.[7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI | Ram Ratan Singh | 85,229 | 49.8 | +33.65 | |
JD(U) | Birendra Kumar | 37,250 | 21.77 | ||
LJP | Lalan Kumar | 29,936 | 17.49 | ||
Independent | Chandan Mahato | 3,945 | 2.31 | ||
Independent | Sanjiv Kumar Bharti | 3,927 | 2.29 | ||
JAP(L) | Shri Ram Rai | 1,582 | 0.92 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 3,718 | 2.17 | +0.42 | |
Majority | 47,979 | 28.03 | +18.26 | ||
Turnout | 171,126 | 60.0 | +0.55 | ||
CPI gain from RJD | Swing | 28.03 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RJD | Birendra Kumar Mahto | 68,975 | 43.16 | ||
BJP | Ram Lakhan Singh | 53,364 | 33.39 | ||
CPI | Ram Ratan Singh | 25,818 | 16.15 | ||
Independent | Sanjeev Kumar Bharti | 4,413 | 2.76 | ||
Independent | Deepak Kumar Singh | 1,946 | 1.22 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 2,804 | 1.75 | ||
Majority | 15,611 | 9.77 | |||
Turnout | 159,818 | 59.45 | |||
RJD gain from BJP | Swing | {{{swing}}} |
In the 2010 state assembly elections, Lalan Kunwar of Bharatiya Janata Party won the newly constituted Teghra seat defeating his nearest rival Ram Ratan Singh of CPI.[9][10]