Bankipur Assembly constituency

Assembly constituency in Bihar, India

Bankipur
Constituency No. 182 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 Nitin Nabin
Party	Bhartiya Janta Party
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020

Bankipore or Bankipur Assembly constituency is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a segment of Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency. This constituency and seat is dominated by Kayastha Caste. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Bankipur will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[1]^[2]

Overview

Bankipore comprises Ward Nos. 4, 5, 7 to 13 & 15 in Patna Municipal Corporation of Patna Rural CD Block.^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[4]
Before 2008: See Patna West
2010	Nitin Nabin	Bharatiya Janata Party
2015
2020

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bankipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Nitin Nabin	83,068	59.05
	INC	Luv Sinha	44,032	31.30
	PP	Pushpam Priya Choudhary	5,189	3.69
	None of the Above	None of the Above	1,213	0.86
Majority			39,036	27.75
Turnout			140,683	35.91
	BJP hold		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Bankipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Nitin Nabin	86,759	60.19
	INC	Kumar Ashish	46,992	32.60
	CPI	Shaukat Ali	1,542	1.07
	BSP	Abhishek Kumar Sinha	863	0.60
	SP	Ajay Kumar	708	0.49
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,021	0.71
Majority			39,767	27.59
Turnout			1,44,152	40.24
	BJP hold		Swing

2010

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2010: Bankipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Nitin Nabin	78,771	72.06
	RJD	Binod Kumar Srivastava	17,931	16.40
	INC	Durga Prasad	6,018	5.51
	NCP	Jakir Hussain	1,259	1.15
	Independent	Sunita Preetam	940	0.86
Majority			60,840	55.66
Turnout			1,09,309	36.96
	BJP win (new seat)

Old Segment Election Results

By Election, 2006: Patna West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Nitin Nabin	76,025	82.31
	INC	Ajay Kumar Singh	10,858	11.76
	SP	Chandan Rai	1,484	1.61
	Independent	Surendra Kumar Upadhyay	657	0.71
	RLD	Anjani Kumar	580	0.63
Majority			65,167	70.55
Turnout			92,364	18.02
	BJP hold		Swing

2005 Vidhan Sabha

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2005 (Oct.): Patna West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Nabin Kishor Prasad Sinha	1,17,915	69.33
	INC	Rajesh Kumar Sinha	31,796	18.69
	LJP	Satya Nand Sharma	8,651	5.08
	Independent	Kavi Kumar	2,606	1.53
	CPI(ML)L	Anita Kumari	1,773	1.04
Majority			86,119	50.64
Turnout			1,70,072	33.18
	BJP hold		Swing

References

^ "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).
^ "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.
^ "Bankipur Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.