Purnia Assembly constituency

Purnia Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purnia district in the Indian state of Bihar.

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

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 62. Purnia Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Purnia East community development block including Purnia Municipal Corporation.^[1] In the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Purnia was announced to be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2][3]

Purnia Assembly constituency is part of No 12 Purnia (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[4]	Party
1952	Kamaldeo Narain Sinha		Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967
1969
1972			Indian National Congress
1977	Dev Nath Roy		Janata Party
1980	Ajit Sarkar		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1985
1990
1995
1998^	Madhavi Sarkar
2000	Raj Kishore Kesri		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005
2010
2011^	Kiran Devi
2015	Vijay Kumar Khemka
2020

Election results

2020

Source:^[5]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Purnia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vijay Kumar Khemka	97,757	52.78%
	INC	Indu Sinha	65,603	35.42%
	NOTA	None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors				[6]
	gain from		Swing