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Shikarpur, Bihar Assembly constituency

vidhan Sabha constituency in Bihar, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7496554 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shikarpur Assembly constituency was an assembly constituency in Paschim Champaran district in the Indian state of Bihar. It was reserved for scheduled castes.

Overview

It was part of Bagaha Lok Sabha constituency.

As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission of India, Shikarpur Assembly constituency ceased to exist in 2010.

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“Shikarpur, Bihar Assembly constituency” enters the record as vidhan Sabha constituency in Bihar, India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shikarpur, Bihar and Assembly can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7496554. Authority coordinates are 27.109, 84.468. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shikarpur, Bihar 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.