| Motihari | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No.19 for theBihar Legislative Assembly | |
 | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| Division | Tirhut |
| District | East Champaran |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Purvi Champaran |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 292,635 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
 | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | BJP |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2025 |
| Preceded by | Rama Devi |
Motihari Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inPurvi Champaran district in theIndianstate ofBihar. In2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Motihari will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[1][2]
As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 19. Motihari Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Motiharicommunity development block includingMotihari nagar parishad and Lautnahanotified area and Piprakothi CD block.[3]
Motihari Assembly constituency is part of 3.Purvi Champaran (Lok Sabha constituency).[3] It was earlier part ofMotihari (Lok Sabha constituency).
| Year | Name[4] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Shakuntala Devi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Bigoo Ram | ||
| 1962 | Shakuntala Devi | ||
| 1967 | Chandrika Prasad Yadav | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1969 | Ram Sevak Jaiswal | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | Prabhawati Gupta | ||
| 1977 | |||
| 1980 | Indian National Congress (I) | ||
| 1985 | Triveni Tiwari | Communist Party of India | |
| 1990 | |||
| 1995 | |||
| 2000 | Rama Devi | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2005 | Pramod Kumar | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2005 | |||
| 2010 | |||
| 2015 | |||
| 2020 | |||
| 2025 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Pramod Kumar | 106,080 | 49.5 |  0.06 | |
| RJD | Dewa Gupta | 92,517 | 43.17 | 1.54 | |
| JSP | Atul Kumar | 6,592 | 3.08 | ||
| Independent | Divyanshu Bhardwaj | 2,082 | 0.97 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,801 | 1.31 |  0.53 | |
| Majority | 13,563 | 6.33 | 1.48 | ||
| Turnout | 214,311 | 73.23 | 13.56 | ||
| BJPhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Pramod Kumar | 92,733 | 49.44 | +1.99 | |
| RJD | Om Prakash Choudhary | 78,088 | 41.63 | +5.17 | |
| RLSP | Deepak Kumar Kushwaha | 3,716 | 1.98 | ||
| Independent | Rameshvar Sah | 3,263 | 1.74 | ||
| Independent | Zalaluddin Roy | 1,847 | 0.98 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,455 | 1.84 | +0.3 | |
| Majority | 14,645 | 7.81 | −3.18 | ||
| Turnout | 187,555 | 59.67 | +2.08 | ||
| BJPhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Pramod Kumar | 79,947 | 47.45 | ||
| RJD | Binod Kumar Shrivastava | 61,430 | 36.46 | ||
| Independent | Manoj Kumar | 7,619 | 4.52 | ||
| BSP | Ravi Bhushan Prasad | 6,369 | 3.78 | ||
| Aap Aur Hum Party | Harishchandra Pandit | 2,956 | 1.75 | ||
| CPI(M) | Arvind Kumar | 2,242 | 1.33 | ||
| CPI | Tribeni Tiwari | 1,905 | 1.13 | ||
| Independent | Tafajjul Hussain | 1,570 | 0.93 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,589 | 1.54 | ||
| Majority | 18,517 | 10.99 | |||
| Turnout | 168,493 | 57.59 | |||