Gaya Town Assembly constituency

Not to be confused with Gaya Lok Sabha constituency.

Gaya Town Assembly constituency is one of the 243 state Legislative Assembly seats in Bihar.^[1] This constituency is dominated by the Kayastha Caste.

Gaya Town
Constituency No. 230 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Gaya
Lok Sabha constituency	Gaya
Established	1951
Total electors	2,70,781
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Prem Kumar Cabinet Minister, Government of Bihar
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[2]	Party
1952	Kesho Prasad		Indian National Congress
1957	S.M.Latifur Rehman
1962	Shayam Barthwar		Independent politician
1967	Gopal Mishra		Jana Sangh
1969
1972	Yugal Kishore Prasad		Indian National Congress
1977	Sushila Sahay		Janata Party
1980	Jai Kumar Palit		Indian National Congress
1985
1990	Prem Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
1995
2000
2005
2005
2010
2015
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Gaya Town^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Prem Kumar	66,932	49.89
	INC	Akhauri Onkar Nath	55,034	41.02
	NOTA	None of the above	1,476	1.10
Majority			11,898	8.87
Turnout			1,34,373	49.81
	BJP hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Gaya Town^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Prem Kumar	66,891	51.82
	INC	Priya Ranjan	44,102	34.16
	Independent	Raj Kumar Prasad	7,170	5.55
	CPI	Masood Manzar	2,363	1.83
	Independent	Shashi Kishore Shishu	2,255	1.75
	NOTA	None of the Above	670	0.52
Majority			22,789	17.66
Turnout			1,29,090	52.02
	BJP hold		Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Gaya Town^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Prem Kumar	55,618	53.92
	CPI	Jalal Uddin Ansari	27,201	26.37
	INC	Akhoury Onkar Nath	7,664	7.43
	LJP	Raj Kumar Prasad	4,098	3.97
	BSP	Manoranjan Kumar Pathak	1,356	1.31
Majority			28,417	27.55
Turnout			1,03,153	48.00
	BJP hold		Swing