Amrendra Pratap Singh of the BJP has won the Arrah constituency in 2020 state assembly election. Arrah Vidhan Sabha constituency is part of Arrah Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz Barhara, Sandesh, Tarari, Jagdishpur, Shahpur and Agiaon (SC). In 2015, Arrah became one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.
Arrah is in the Bhojpur district of Bihar. According to the Delimitation Commission of India 2008, the Arrah assembly constituency comprises Ganghar, Ramapur Sandiya, Pirauta, Sandia,Makhdumpur Dumra, Daulatpur, Bhakura, Jamira, Hasanpura, Gothahula, Karari, Mahuli and Arrah (M) gram panchayats of Arrah community development block.
Mohammad Nawaz Alam of RJD is the sitting MLA of Arrah. He defeated Amrendra Pratap Singh of BJP by only 666 votes.
BJP’s Singh won the seat in the 2010 assembly elections by bagging 56,504 votes.
Here are a few details about the Arrah assembly seat
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Arrah, BhojpurLok Sabha constituency: Arrah
Polling date: NA
2020 Winner: Amrendra Pratap Singh (Bharatiya Janata Party)
2020 Runner-up: Quyamuddin Ansari (Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation))
Voting Margin in 2020: 3002
2015 candidates: Mohammad Nawaz Alam of RJD, Amrendra Pratap Singh of BJP, Kyammudin of CPI (ML)
2020 candidates: NA
Sitting MLA, party: Mohammad Nawaz Alam, RJD
Winning margin in 2015: 666
Runner up name, party: Amrendra Pratap Singh, BJP
Number of voters in 2015: 156,247
Percentage of votes polled in 2015: 51.41 %
Number of women voters in 2015: 67,992
Number of polling booths in 2015: 290
