Banka Assembly constituency

Banka is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Banka Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Amarpur, Katoria, Belhar and Dhoraiya.^[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Banka was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2][3][4]

Banka
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Banka
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Overview

Banka comprises CD Blocks Barahat & Banka.^[5]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[6]	Party
1952	Raghavendra Narain Singh		Indian National Congress
1957	Bindhyabasini Devi
1962	Braj Mohan Singh		Swatantra Party
1963^	Bindhyabasini Devi		Indian National Congress
1967	B.L. Mandal		Jana Sangh
1969	Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh		Indian National Congress
1972
1977	Sindheshwar Prasad Singh		Janata Party
1980	Thakur Kamakhya Prasad Singh		Indian National Congress
1985	Chandrashekhar Singh
1986^	Janardan Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party
1990	Ramnarayan Mandal
1995	Javed Iqbal Ansari		Janata Dal
2000	Ramnarayan Mandal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005	Javed Iqbal Ansari		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ramnarayan Mandal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2010	Javed Iqbal Ansari		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2014^	Ramnarayan Mandal		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Banka

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ramnarayan Mandal
	RLSP	Kaushal Kishore Singh
	PP	Kashikant Singh
	RJD	Javed Iqbal Ansari
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Banka^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Ramnarayan Mandal	52,379	39.23
	RJD	Zafrul Hoda	48,649	36.43
Turnout			133,525	56.65
Registered electors			235,691