Darbhanga Rural Assembly constituency

Darbhanga Rural is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar. It has been an open seat since 2010 but was earlier reserved for scheduled castes.

Darbhanga Rural
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Darbhanga
Established	1977
Reservation	None
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 82 Darbhanga Rural Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Manigachhi community development block; Nazra Mohammada, Narayanpur, Adalpur, Atihar, Balha, Bijuli, Chhotaipatti, Dhoi, Dularpur, Ghorghatta, Kharua, Khutwara, Loam, Muria, Nainaghat, Sonki and Bhalpatti gram panchayats of Darbhanga CD Block.^[1]

Darbhanga Rural Assembly constituency is part of No. 14 Darbhanga (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1977	Jagdish Choudhary		Janata Party
1980			Janata Party
1985	Ram Chandra Paswan		Indian National Congress
1990	Jagdish Choudhary		Janata Dal
1995	Mohan Ram
2000	Pitambar Paswan		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2005
2010	Lalit Kumar Yadav
2015
2020

Election results

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Darbhanga Rural^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Lalit Kumar Yadav	70,557	51.35
	HAM(S)	Naushad Ahmad	36,066	26.25
Majority			34,491	25.1
Turnout			137,395	52.14
Registered electors			263,534
	RJD hold		Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Darbhanga Rural^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Lalit Kumar Yadav	64,929	41.26
	JD(U)	Faraz Fatmi	62,788	39.90
	LJP	Pradeep Kumar Thakur	17,605	11.19
	NOTA	None of the above	3,937	2.50
	Independent	Deo Narayan Gupta	3,032	1.93
	Independent	Azizur Rahaman	2,088	1.33
	BSP	Sunil Kumar Mandal	1,659	1.05
	Rashtriya Jansambhavna Party	Rakesh Kumar Mandal	1,310	0.83
Margin of victory			2,141	1.36
Turnout			157,348
	RJD hold		Swing