Kargahar Assembly constituency

Kargahar
Constituency No. 209 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Rohtas
Lok Sabha constituency	Sasaram
Established	2008
Total electors	331,884
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bashisth Singh
Party	JD(U)
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2025

Kargahar is an assembly constituency for Bihar Legislative Assembly in Rohtas district. It comes under Sasaram Lok Sabha constituency. ^{[1] [2]}

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Ram Dhani Singh [3]		Janata Dal
2015	Bashisth Singh [4]
2020	Santosh Kumar Mishra [2]		Indian National Congress
2025	Bashisth Singh		Janata Dal

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kargahar ^{[5] [6]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Bashisth Singh	92485
	BSP	Uday Pratap Singh	56809
	INC	Santosh Kumar Mishra	39333
	JSP	Ritesh Pandey	16292
	CPI	Mahendra Prasad Gupta	2392
	NOTA	None of the Above	3013
Majority
Turnout
			Swing

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kargahar ^{[7] [2]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Santosh Kumar Mishra	59,763	30.76
	JD(U)	Bashisth Singh	55,680	28.66	−3.42
	BSP	Uday Pratap Singh	47,321	24.35	+11.03
	LJP	Rakesh Kumar Singh	16,988	8.74
	NOTA	None of the above	709	0.36	−0.48
Majority			4,083	2.1	−5.16
Turnout			194,298	59.8	−0.04
	INC gain from JD(U)		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kargahar ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Bashisth Singh	57,018	32.08
	RLSP	Birendra Kumar Singh	44,111	24.82
	Independent	Alok Kumar Singh	27,454	15.45
	BSP	Md. Shamim Shah	23,677	13.32
	SP	Ram Dhani Singh	6,121	3.44
	SS	Shashikant Tiwari	2,996	1.69
	Independent	Neeraj Shukla	2,765	1.56
	Independent	Shiv Shankar Singh	2,422	1.36
	Independent	Pankaj Kumar Singh	1,740	0.98
	NOTA	None of the above	1,491	0.84
Majority			12,907	7.26
Turnout			177,750	59.84

References

1. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
2. "सासाराम संसदीय क्षेत्र: करगहर नया विधानसभा क्षेत्र बना". livehindustan.com (in Hindi). Archived from the original on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
3. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2010". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.
4. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.
5. "2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election Results: Kargahar". Election Commission of India. 14 November 2025. Archived from the original on 3 December 2025. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
6. "Kargahar Constituency Election Results 2015 - 2025". The Times of India. 14 November 2025. Archived from the original on 3 December 2025. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
7. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.

External links

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

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