Buxar Assembly constituency

Buxar Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 200 - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictBuxar
Established1951
Total electors288,128
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party  BJP
Alliance  NDA
Elected year2025

Buxar Assembly constituency is one of the 243 assembly constituencies of Bihar Vidhan Sabha. It comes under Buxar (Lok Sabha constituency) for parliamentary elections. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Buxar will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.

Parts

This constituency includes Buxar and Chausa blocks of Buxar district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Name Party
1952 Lakshmi Kant Tiwari Indian National Congress
1957 Sheokumar Thakur
1962 Jagnarain Trivedi
1967 P. Chatterjee Samyukta Socialist Party
1969 Jagnarain Trivedi Indian National Congress
1972
1977
1980
1985 Srikant Pathak
1990 Manju Prakash Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1995
2000 Sukhada Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005 Hriday Narayan Singh Bahujan Samaj Party
2010 Sukhada Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party
2015 Sanjay Tiwari Indian National Congress
2020
2025 Anand Mishra Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Buxar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Anand Mishra 84,901 45.01 +11.02
INC Sanjay Kumar Tiwari 56,548 29.98 −6.4
BSP Abhimanyu Kushwaha 29,118 15.44
JSP Tathagat Harsh Vardhan 7,920 4.2
NOTA None of the above 1,356 0.72 −1.5
Majority 28,353 15.03 +12.64
Turnout 188,618 65.46 +9.14
BJP gain from INC Swing


2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Buxar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Sanjay Kumar Tiwari 59,417 36.38 −5.05
BJP Parshuram Chaubey 55,525 33.99 −1.1
RLSP Nirmal Kumar Singh 30,489 18.67
Independent Aakash Kumar Singh 5,794 3.55
NOTA None of the above 3,630 2.22 +1.6
Majority 3,892 2.39 −3.95
Turnout 163,340 56.32 −1.48
INC hold Swing INC Hold


2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Buxar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Sanjay Kumar Tiwari 66,527 41.43
BJP Pradeep Dubey 56,346 35.09
BSP Saroj Kumar Rajbhar 15,298 9.53
CPI Bhagwati Prasad Srivastva 2,786 1.73
Independent Ashok Kumar Singh 2,491 1.55
Independent Manoj Kumar Singh 1,738 1.08
Independent Aravind Kumar Pandey 1,512 0.94
SS Ramesar Noniya 1,473 0.92
NOTA None of the above 998 0.62
Majority 10,181 6.34
Turnout 160,594 57.8


References

  1. ↑ http://vidhansabha.bih.nic.in/pdf/List_Of_Members.pdf Legislative assembly constituencies and Members (in Hindi) - Bihar Vidhan Sabha
  2. ↑ Rajesh, Kumar (2 October 2015). "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 December 2022.
  3. 1 2 "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
  4. ↑ http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/CurrentElections/CONSOLIDATED_ORDER%20_ECI%20.pdf Parliamentary constituencies and Assembly constituencies (In English) - Election Commission of India
  5. ↑ "Bihar Assembly (Vidhan Sabha)Constituencies - Updates and Results". Elections in India.
  6. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. 15 December 2025.
  7. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. 13 January 2021.