| Sasaram Assembly constituency | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 208 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Rohtas |
| LS constituency | Sasaram |
| Established | 1957 |
| Reservation | None |
| Elected year | 2020 |
Sasaram Assembly constituency is one of 243 legislative assembly of legislative assembly of Bihar. It comes under Sasaram Lok Sabha constituency. [1]
Sasaram comprises community blocks of Sasaram & Tilouthu. [2] Earlier Rohtas block and Nauhatta block also came under the Sasaram assembly constituency but after the delimitation of 2009 these two blocks began comprising Chenari Vidhansabha.
Sasaram constituency is dominated by Kushwahas, as a result of which, from 1980 to 2015, in all the assembly elections, only candidates belonging to this caste have been elected from this constituency. The victory of Ram Sewak Singh in the 1980 Bihar Legislative Assembly election was followed by victory of only Kushwaha candidates from this seat and from the 1990 onwards, the first as well as second runner-ups were also from the same caste. As a result of this, all the political parties started fielding only those candidates, who belonged to this caste group. [3]
| Year | Member [4] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Bipin Behari Sinha | Praja Socialist Party | |
| Ramadhar Dusadh | |||
| 1962 | Dukhan Ram | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | Vinod Bihari Singh | ||
| 1969 | Bipin Behari Sinha | Praja Socialist Party | |
| 1972 | Ram Sewak Singh | Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party | |
| 1977 | Bipin Behari Sinha | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Ram Sewak Singh | ||
| 1985 | Lok Dal | ||
| 1990 | Jawahar Prasad Kushwaha | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 1995 | |||
| 2000 | Ashok Kumar Kushwaha | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2005 | Jawahar Prasad Kushwaha | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2005 | |||
| 2010 | |||
| 2015 | Ashok Kumar Kushwaha | Rashtriya Janata Dal | |
| 2020 | Rajesh Kumar Gupta | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RJD | Rajesh Kumar Gupta | ||||
| JD(U) | Ashok Kumar | ||||
| LJP | Rameshwar Chaurasiya | ||||
| RLSP | Chandrasekhar Singh | ||||
| PP | Amla Tripathi | ||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| gain from | Swing | ||||
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