Samastipur Assembly constituency

Samastipur
Constituency No. 133 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Samastipur
Lok Sabha constituency	Samastipur
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ashwamedh Devi
Party	JD(U)
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2025

Samastipur Vidhan Sabha (assembly) constituency is in Samastipur district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 133 Warisnagar Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Samastipur municipality, Samastipur community development block; and Shahpur Baghauni, Bherokhara, Tajpur, Adharpur and Baghi gram panchayats of Tajpur CD Block. ^[1] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Samastipur will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. ^{[2] [3]}

Samastipur Assembly constituency is part of No. 23 Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
1957	Yadunandan Sahay [a]		Indian National Congress
	Sahdeo Mahato [b]
1962	Tej Narain Ishwar [c]
	Sahdeo Mahato [d]
1967	Rajendra Narain Sharma		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969
1972	Sahdeo Mahato		Indian National Congress
1977	Chandra Shekhar Singh		Janata Party
1980	Karpoori Thakur		Janata Party
1985	Ashok Singh		Lokdal
1990			Janata Dal
1995
2000	Ram Nath Thakur		Janata Dal (United)
2005
2005
2010	Akhtarul Islam Sahin		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2015
2020

^by-election

1. Samastipur West
2. Samastipur East
3. Samastipur West
4. Samastipur East

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Samastipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Ashwamedh Devi
	RJD	Akhtarul Islam Sahin
	Independent	Chetna Jhamb
	JSP	Manoj Kumar Singh
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	JD(U) gain from RJD		Swing	{{{swing}}}

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Samastipur ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Akhtarul Islam Sahin	68,507	41.21	13.35
	JD(U)	Ashwamedh Devi	63,793	38.37
	LJP	Mahendra Pradhan	12,074	7.26
	Independent	Avinash Kumar	4,053	2.44
	JP	Haroon Gauhar	2,673	1.61
	Independent	Nitesh Kumar Sinha	2,120	1.28
	NOTA	None of the above	1,837	1.11	0.4
Majority			4,714	2.84	17.71
Turnout			166,240	59.55	1.74
	RJD hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Samastipur ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Akhtarul Islam Sahin	82,508	54.56
	BJP	Renu Kumari	51,428	34.01
	Independent	Jitandar Chaudhary	3,054	2.02
	Independent	Ranjan Kishore Sharma	2,131	1.41
	SS	Subhash Prasad Singh	1,872	1.24
	Independent	Avadhesh Kumar	1,780	1.18
	NOTA	None of the above	1,070	0.71
Majority			31,080	20.55
Turnout			151,218	61.29
	RJD hold		Swing

1967

• R. N. Sharma (SSP): 20,976 votes ^[5]
• S. Mahto (INC): 17,038 votes ^{[6] [7] [8]}

References

1. "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
2. "36 Seats in Bihar to Have Electronic Voting Machines With Paper Trail Facility".
3. "Poll-bound Bihar to get 36 EVMs with paper trail facility". 5 August 2015.
4. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India . 13 January 2021.
5. "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1967".
6. "Samastipur Election Results since 1977". Travel India Guide. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
7. "95 - Samastipur Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
8. "Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1957".

External links

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

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