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Chiraia Assembly constituency

constituency of the Bihar legislative assembly in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ5101805 ↗
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Chiraia Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purvi Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per orders of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, 20. Chiraiya Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Chiraiya and Patahi community development blocks.

Chiraia Assembly constituency is part of 4. Sheohar (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

2025

2020

2015

References

External links

"Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chiraia Assembly constituency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.