Kumhrar Assembly constituency

Assembly constituency in Bihar, India

Kumhrar
Constituency No. 183 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Patna
LS constituency	Patna Sahib
Established	2008
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Arun Kumar Sinha
Party	Bhartiya Janta Party
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020

Kumhrar is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency.^[1] This Vidhan Sabha seat and constituency is dominated by Kayastha caste. In the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Kumhrar was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2]^[3] Kumhrar was initially called Patna Central assembly constituency, but after delimitation it was renamed as Kumhrar assembly constituency.^[4]

Overview

Kumhrar comprises Ward Nos. 14 & 16 to 22 in PMC and OG of Patna Rural CD Block.^[5]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[6]
Before 2008: See Patna Central
2010	Arun Kumar Sinha	Bharatiya Janata Party
2015
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2020: Kumhrar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Arun Kumar Sinha	81,400	54.00
	RJD	Dharamendra Kumar	54,937	36.44
	JAP(L)	Pappu Yadav	4,333	2.87
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,558	1.03
Majority			26,463	17.56
Turnout			1,50,744	35.27
	BJP hold		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Kumhrar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Arun Kumar Sinha	87,792	56.25
	INC	Aquil Haider	50,517	32.37
	SHS	Sumit Ranjan Sinha	3,123	2.00
	Independent	Ajay Verma	2,964	1.90
	CPI(M)	Manoj Kumar	1,384	0.89
	NOTA	None of the Above	860	0.55
Majority			37,275	23.88
Turnout			1,56,067	38.21
	BJP hold		Swing

2010

Bihar Assembly election, 2010: Kumhrar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Arun Kumar Sinha	83,425	72.04
	LJP	Md. Kamal Parwez	15,617	13.49
	INC	Kapildeo Prasad Yadav	9,254	7.99
	CPI(M)	Bindeshwari Prasad	1,618	1.40
	Independent	Balram Patel	874	0.75
Majority			67,808	58.55
Turnout			1,15,804	37.33
	BJP win (new seat)

Old Segment Election Results

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2005: Patna Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Arun Kumar Sinha	89,614	69.29
	NCP	Aquil Haider	29,574	22.83
	CPI	Mohan Prasad	2,962	2.29
	SHS	Om Prakash Awtar	1,909	1.47
	Independent	Saroj Kant Tripathi	1,079	0.83
Majority			60,040	46.46
Turnout			1,29,329	35.82
	BJP hold		Swing

References

^ Kumhrar Assembly Constituency 20 December 2013
^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
^ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
^ "Battle enters final stage". Archived from the original on 11 October 2015.
^ "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
^ "Kumhrarh Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.