Agiaon Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Bihar legislative assembly in India

Agiaon Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 195 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Bhojpur
LS constituency	Arrah
Established	2008
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Shiv Prakash Ranjan^[1]
Party	CPI(ML)L
Elected year	2024

Agiaon is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Arrah Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Barhara, Arrah, Tarari, Jagdishpur, Shahpur and Sandesh.^[2]

Area/wards

Agiaon Assembly constituency comprises:^[3]

Charpokhari CD block
Garhani CD block
Agiaon CD block

Overview

As per the estimates of 2011 census, out of total 352998 population 100% is rural and 0% is urban population. The Scheduled castes (SC) and Scheduled tribes (ST) ratio is 18.3 and 0.03, respectively out of total population. As per the voter list of 2019, there are 262907 electorates and 276 polling stations in this constituency.^[4]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The Agiaon Assembly constituency was created in 2010. The list of the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) representing Agiaon constituency is as follows:

Election	Name
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Shivesh Ram	Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Prabhunath Prasad	Janata Dal
2020	Manoj Manzil^[5]	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
2024 By-Election	Shiv Prakash Ranjan	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation

Election results

2024 by-election

Bye-election, 2024: Agiaon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(ML)L	Shiv Prakash Ranjan	73,460	53.03
	JD(U)	Prabhunath Prasad	43,625	31.65
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,931	2.85
Majority			29,835
Turnout			1,37,807
	CPI(ML)L hold		Swing

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Agiaon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(ML)L	Manoj Manzil	86,327	61.39
	JD(U)	Prabhunath Prasad	37,777	26.87
	LJP	Rajeshwar Paswan	4,972	3.07
	RLSP	Manuram Rathaur	1,765	1.26
	NOTA	None of the above	3,787	2.69
Majority			48,550	35.42
Turnout			1,40,806	52.54
	CPI(ML)L gain from JD(U)

References

^ "Agiaon Election Result 2024 Bypoll LIVE Updates Highlights: Shiv Prakash Ranjan of CPIMLL Wins". www.news18.com. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
^ "Arrah Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
^ "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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
^ "key electoral data of AGIAON Vidhan Sabha from 2009 to 2019,". Datanet India. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
^ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 11 February 2021.