Country India District Purnia Type Open | State Bihar Constituency No 62 Lok Sabha constituency 12. Purnia | |
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Purnia (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Hindi: पूर्णिया विधान सभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is an assembly constituency in Purnia district in the Indian state of Bihar.
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As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No 62. Purnia (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Purnia East community development block including Purnia East nagar parishad. In Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2015, Purnia will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.
Purnia (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No 12 Purnia (Lok Sabha constituency).
1977-2010
Rajkishore Kesri, the sitting MLA of Purnia, was stabbed to death on 4 January 2011, by a school teacher, who raised accusations against him of rape and sexual exploitation.
In the 2010, October 2005, February 2005 and 2000 state assembly elections, Raj Kishore Keshri of BJP won the Purnia seat defeating his nearest rival Ram Charitra Yadav of Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Ajit Sarkar of CPI(M) defeated Rajesh Ranjan of SP in 1995 and Ravindra Narayan Singh of JD in 1990, Kamaldeo Narayan Sinha of Congress in 1985 and Sharda Prasad Singh of Congress in 1980. Dev Nath Roy of JP defeated Kamal Deo Narayan Sinha of Congress in 1977.