| Buxar Assembly constituency | |
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| Constituency No. 200 - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Buxar |
| Established | 1951 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Indian National Congress |
| Elected year | 2020 |
Buxar Assembly constituency is one of the 243 assembly constituencies of Bihar Vidhan Sabha. [1] 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. [2] [3]
This constituency includes Buxar and Chausa blocks of Buxar district. [4]
| Year | Name [5] | 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 | |
| 1995 | |||
| 2000 | Sukhada Pandey | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2005 | |||
| 2005 | Hriday Narayan Singh | Bahujan Samaj Party | |
| 2010 | Sukhada Pandey | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2015 | Sanjay Kumar Tiwari | Indian National Congress | |
| 2020 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BSP | Abhimanyu Kushwaha | ||||
| INC | Sanjay Kumar Tiwari | ||||
| BJP | Anand Mishra | ||||
| JSP | Tathagat Harsh Vardhan | ||||
| AAP | Dharmaraj Singh | ||||
| NOTA | None of the Above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
| 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 gain from BJP | Swing | INC Hold | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Sanjay Kumar Tiwari Alias Munna 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 | |||