Bankipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

182 Bankipur
Vidhan Sabha constituency
182 Bankipur Location in Bihar
Coordinates: 25°38′28″N 85°5′26″E / 25.64111°N 85.09056°ECoordinates: 25°38′28″N 85°5′26″E / 25.64111°N 85.09056°E
Country	India
State	Bihar
District	Patna
Constituency No	182
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	30 Patna Sahib
Electoral system	First past the post

Bankipore Vidhan Sabha constituency(Hindi: बांकीपुर विधानसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of 243 legislative assembly of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is comes under Patna Sahib lok sabha constituency.^[1] In Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2015, Bankipur will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2][3]

Overview

Bankipore comprises Ward Nos. 4, 5, 7 to 13 & 15 in Patna Municipal Corporation of Patna Rural CD Block.^[4]

Member of Legislative Assembly

Year		Member	Political Party
	2010	Nitin Naveen	Bharatiya Janata Party
	2015	Nitin Naveen	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election Results

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2015: Bankipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nitin Naveen	86,759	60.19
	INC	Kumar Ashish	46,992	32.60
	CPI	Shaukat Ali	1,542	1.07
	BSP	Abhishek Kumar Sinha	863	0.60
	SP	Ajay Kumar	708	0.49
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,021	0.71
Majority			39,767	27.59
Turnout			1,44,152	40.24
	BJP hold		Swing

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2010: Bankipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nitin Nabin	78,771	72.06
	RJD	Binod Kumar Srivastava	17,931	16.40
	INC	Durga Prasad	6,018	5.51
	NCP	Jakir Hussain	1,259	1.15
	Independent	Sunita Preetam	940	0.86
Majority			60,840	55.66
Turnout			1,09,309	36.96
	BJP win (new seat)

Earlier Results

By Election, 2006: Patna West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nitin Naveen	76,025	82.31
	INC	Ajay Kumar Singh	10,858	11.76
	SP	Chandan Rai	1,484	1.61
	Independent	Surendra Kumar Upadhyay	657	0.71
	RLD	Anjani Kumar	580	0.63
Majority			65,167	70.55
Turnout			92,364	18.02
	BJP hold		Swing

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2005 (Oct.): Patna West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Naveen Kishore Prasad Sinha	1,17,915	69.33
	INC	Rajesh Kumar Sinha	31,796	18.69
	LJP	Satya Nand Sharma	8,651	5.08
	Independent	Kavi Kumar	2,606	1.53
	CPI (M-L) Liberation	Anita Kumari	1,773	1.04
Majority			86,119	50.64
Turnout			1,70,072	33.18
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• List of Assembly constituencies of Bihar
• Bankipore

References

1. Bankipore Assembly Constituency December 20, 2013
2. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
3. "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg." (PDF).
4. "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 2013-12-20.