Arrah (formerly Shahabad) is one of the 40

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(parliamentary) constituencies in

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. It is a part of the Bhojpur district and comprises seven Assembly constituencies: Sandesh,

Barhara Barhara, also spelled Badahara (Hindi: बडहरा) is a Gram Panchayat and corresponding community development block in Bhojpur District of Bihar, India. It is situated on the bank of the river Ganges. By the time of July–August most of ...

Arrah Arrah (also transliterated as Ara) is a city and a municipal corporation in Bhojpur district, India, Bhojpur district (formerly known as Shahabad district) in the Indian state of Bihar. It is the headquarters of Bhojpur district, India, Bhojpur ...

, Agiaon (SC), Tarari,

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and Shahpur.

About

In 1977, the erstwhile Shahabad Lok Sabha constituency was renamed as Arrah Lok Sabha.

Social equation

The constituency was represented by only two parliamentarians till 1980.

Bali Ram Bhagat Bali Ram Bhagat (7 October 1922 – 2 January 2011) was an Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress (INC). He has served as Member of Parliament (MP) in Lok Sabha representing Patna-cum-Shahabad from 1952 to 1957 and Sha ...

, who hailed from

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caste and

Chandradeo Prasad Verma Chandradeo Prasad Verma (21 January 1921– 30 April 2005) was a politician who was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament of India from the Arrah, Bihar in 1977, 1980 and 1996. He was the Union Minister of State for Rural ...

, who was a member of

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(

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) caste were the parliamentarians, who had the distinction of getting elected from this seat for multiple times. After these two parliamentarians, the constituency elected different candidates everytime in next elections till 2009. This constituency is known for struggle between some caste groups for getting their men elected in Indian General Elections to

from the first General Elections itself. Until 2004, only

and

candidates were elected in different elections, except in 1989, when

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, a member of Extremely Backward Caste was elected on the symbol of

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. In 1996, 1998 and 1999 elections, Chandradeo Prasad Verma,

Haridwar Prasad Singh Haridwar Prasad Singh (also known as H.P Singh) was an Indian politician based in Bihar, who was elected to Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Arrah Lok Sabha constituency. He was elected to 12th Lok Sabha and he defeated Chandradeo Prasad Ver ...

and Ram Prasad Kushwaha, all three belonging to

caste were elected from this constituency. From 2009 onwards, the candidates belonging to

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caste are getting elected.

Assembly segments

1976-2008

From 1976 to 2008, the Arrah Lok Sabha constituency had 6

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seats.

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and

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from

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and Sandesh,

and Sahar from Bhojpur district.

2008-Present

Arrah Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following seven

seats, all from Bhojpur district.

Members of Parliament

1952-1957

See Patna-cum-Shahabad Lok Sabha constituency for

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1957-1977

See Shahabad Lok Sabha constituency. It was in existence from

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5th Lok Sabha The 5th Lok Sabha (15 March 1971 — 18 January 1977) was elected during February–March 1971.The term of the House was extended two times by one year at a time. However, the House was dissolved after having been in existence for a period of ...

1977-Present

As present day Arrah Lok Sabha constituency. It is in existence since the

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. The erstwhile ''

Shahabad district Shahabad district or Arrah district, headquartered at Arrah (now part of Bhojpur) was a Bhojpuri speaking district in western Bihar, India, making the western border of Bihar with Uttar Pradesh. In 1972, the district was split into two distri ...

'' was bifurcated into Bhojpur district (Arrah) and

Rohtas district Rohtas District is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar States and territories of India, state, India. It came into existence when Shahabad district, Shahabad District was bifurcated into Bhojpur & Rohtas in 1972. Administrative headquart ...

(Sasaram) in year 1972.

Election results

2024

2019

General Elections 2014

References

External links

Arrah lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details
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