Simri Bakhtiarpur is an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

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 constituency in Saharsa district

Saharsa District

Saharsa is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar, India. Saharsa town is the administrative headquarters of this district. Saharsa district is a part of a larger territory, the Kosi Division and it became a district on 1 April 1954 and subsequently has become smaller with other districts being...

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of Bihar

Bihar

Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....

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Extent

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 76 Simri Bakhtiarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Simri-Bakhtiarpur

Simri-Bakhtiarpur

-Location:National Highway 107 passes through Simri-Bakhtiarpur. Nearest airport is Patna Airport.-External links:* *...

 and Salkhua community development blocks

Community Development Block in India

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; Ghoghepur, Jhara, Aeina, Maheshi North, Maheshi South, Rajanpur, Sirwar Naharwar gram panchayat

Gram panchayat

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s of Mahishi CD Block.

Simri Bakhtiarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 25 Khagaria (Lok Sabha constituency)

Khagaria (Lok Sabha constituency)

Khagaria Lok Sabha constitency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India.-Assembly segments:From the 2009 Lok Sabha elections Khagaria Lok Sabha constituency comprised the following six Vidhan Sabha segments:# Simri Bakhtiarpur# Hasanpur# Alauli# Khagaria# Beldaur#...

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1977-2010

In the 2010 state assembly elections

Bihar legislative assembly election, 2010

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, Dr. Arun Kumar of JD(U)

Janata Dal (United)

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 won the Simri Bakhtirapur assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Choudhry Mehboob Ali Kaisar of Congress

Indian National Congress

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.Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the October 2005 and February 2005 state assembly elections Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JD(U) defeated Choudhry Mehboob Ali Kaiser of Congress and Zafar Alam of RJD

Rashtriya Janata Dal

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 respectively. Choudhry Md. Mehboob Ali Kaiser of Congress defeated Zafar Alam of RJD in 2000 and Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JD

Janata Dal

Janata Dal is an Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal, Congress, and the Jan Morcha led by V. P...

 in 1995. Dinesh Chandra Yadav of JD defeated Mehboob Ali Kaiser of Congress in 1990. Choudhary Mohammad Salahuddin of Congress defeated Dinesh Chandra Yadav representing Lok Dal in 1985 and representing Janata Party (Secular – Charan Singh) in 1980, and Ayodhya Prasad Yadav, Independent, in 1977.