| Rajauli Assembly constituency | |
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| Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Nawada |
| Established | 1951 |
| Reservation | SC |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent Vimala Rajvanshi | |
| Party | LJP(RV) |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2025 |
Rajauli Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency for Bihar Legislative Assembly in Nawada district of Bihar, India. It comes under Nawada (Lok Sabha constituency). [1] [2] Prakash Veer of RJD had won the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election from Rajauli. [3] Before 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election Prakash Veer joined Janshakti Janata Dal led by Tej Pratap Yadav.
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Radha Krishna Prasad Sinha [4] | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | Ramswaroop Prasad Yadav | ||
| 1962 | |||
| 1967 | Shanti Devi | ||
| 1969 | Babu Lal | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
| 1972 | Banwari Ram | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Babu Lal | Independent | |
| 1980 | Banwari Ram | Janata Party | |
| 1985 | Independent | ||
| 1990 | Babu Lal | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1995 | Janata Dal | ||
| 2000 | Rajaram Paswan | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2005 | Nand Kishore Choudhary | ||
| 2005 | Banwari Ram | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2010 | Kanhaiya Kumar | ||
| 2015 | Prakash Veer | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2020 | |||
| 2025 | Vimala Rajvanshi | Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LJP(RV) | Vimal Rajbanshi | 90,272 | 50.53 | new | |
| RJD | Pinki Bharti | 86,319 | 48.31 | ||
| BSP | Akhilesh Kumar | 3,832 | 2.14 | new | |
| JSP | Naresh Chaudhari | 3,321 | 1.86 | new | |
| JJD | Prakash Veer | 2,856 | 1.60 | new | |
| RLJP | Pratima Kumari | 2,262 | 1.27 | new | |
| SBSP | Chandan Kumar | 2,160 | 1.21 | new | |
| Independent | Vijay Paswan | 2,120 | 1.19 | new | |
| AAP | Ranjit Kumar | 1,206 | 0.68 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 4,286 | 2.40 | ||
| Majority | 3,953 | 2.21 | |||
| Turnout | 178,907 | 55.17 | |||
| LJP(RV) gain from RJD | Swing | new | |||
In the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election in Rajauli, RJD won with 45.81% votes while BJP came in second with 42.81% votes, with a vote margin of 4615 votes. [5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RJD | Prakash Veer | 69,984 | 41.72 | −4.09 | |
| BJP | Kanhaiya Kumar | 57,391 | 34.22 | −8.59 | |
| Independent | Arjun Ram | 14,394 | 8.58 | ||
| Independent | Prema Chaudhary | 5,309 | 3.17 | ||
| Independent | Banwari Ram | 3,506 | 2.09 | ||
| Independent | Prithaviraj Basant | 2,296 | 1.37 | ||
| Independent | Ranjit Kumar | 2,219 | 1.32 | ||
| Independent | Balmiki Ram | 1,956 | 1.17 | ||
| RLSP | Mithilesh Rajvanshi | 1,529 | 0.91 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,188 | 0.71 | −2.89 | |
| Majority | 12,593 | 7.5 | +4.5 | ||
| Turnout | 167,735 | 50.43 | −0.42 | ||
| RJD hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RJD | Prakash Veer | 70,549 | 45.81 | ||
| BJP | Arjun Ram | 65,934 | 42.81 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Vinay Paswan | 2,987 | 1.94 | ||
| BSP | Rakesh Kumar | 2,518 | 1.63 | ||
| RPI | Rajendra Paswan | 1,409 | 0.91 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 5,541 | 3.6 | ||
| Majority | 4,615 | 3.0 | |||
| Turnout | 154,019 | 50.85 | |||