Kargahar Assembly constituency

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Kargahar
Constituency No. 209 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
District Rohtas
Lok Sabha constituency Sasaram
Established2008
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Santhosh Kumar Mishra
Party Indian National Congress
Elected year 2020

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

Contents

Members of the Legislative Assembly

ElectionNameParty
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010 Ram Dhani Singh [3] Janata Dal
2015 Bashisht Singh [4]
2020 Santosh Kumar Mishra [2] Indian National Congress

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kargahar
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Rahul Gandhi
JD(U)
JSP Prashant Kishor [5]
NOTA None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Swing

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kargahar [6] [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Santosh Kumar Mishra 59,763 30.76
JD(U) Bashisth Singh55,68028.66−3.42
BSP Uday Pratap Singh47,32124.35+11.03
LJP Rakesh Kumar Singh16,9888.74
NOTA None of the above 7090.36−0.48
Majority 4,0832.1−5.16
Turnout 194,29859.8−0.04
INC gain from JD(U) Swing


2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kargahar [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD(U) Bashisht Singh 57,018 32.08
RLSP Birendra Kumar Singh44,11124.82
Independent Alok Kumar Singh27,45415.45
BSP Md. Shamim Shah23,67713.32
SP Ram Dhani Singh6,1213.44
SS Shashikant Tiwari2,9961.69
Independent Neeraj Shukla2,7651.56
Independent Shiv Shankar Singh2,4221.36
Independent Pankaj Kumar Singh1,7400.98
NOTA None of the above 1,4910.84
Majority 12,9077.26
Turnout 177,75059.84

References

  1. ↑ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "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. 1 2 "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "Prashant Kishor will contest from his 'birthplace' Karghar seat! Tejashwi gets relief, opposition calls him 'vote cutter'". Moneycontrol (in Hindi). Retrieved 3 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.

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