Arrah Assembly constituency is one of 243 assembly seats of the

Bihar Legislative Assembly The Bihar Legislative Assembly, also known as the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, is the lower house of the bicameral Bihar Legislature of the state of Bihar in India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is ...

. It is part 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 ...

Lok Sabha constituency along with 6 other assembly constituencies named Sandesh, Barhara, Tarari, Jagdishpur, Shahpur and Agiaon (SC). Since

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, Arrah has been one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.

Area/Wards

Arrah Assembly constituency comprises: * Gram Panchayats: Ganghar, Ramapur Sandia, Piraunta, Sandia, Makhdumpur Dumra, Daulatpur, Bhakura, Jamira, Hasanpura, Gothahula, Karari, Mahuli & Arrah ( MC) of

CD Block.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

From 1952 to 1967, Arrah had two assembly seats: Arrah and Arrah Muffasil. Later in 1967, Arrah Muffasil was merged into the Arrah constituency. Ambika Sharan Singh of the

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(INC) had won the Arrah Muffasil Assembly constituency in 1952, 1957 and 1962 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections. The list of the

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(MLA) representing Arrah constituency is as follows:

Election results

2020

2015

References

External links

* {{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of Bihar Arrah Assembly constituencies of Bihar Politics of Bhojpur district, India Constituencies established in 1951 1951 establishments in Bihar