Sasaram Assembly constituency

Sasaram Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 208 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Rohtas
Lok Sabha 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]

Overview

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.

Social equation

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]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sasaram

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

See also

• List of constituencies of Bihar Legislative Assembly

References

1. "Sasaram Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
2. "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 31 December 2017.
3. "Bihar Chunav 2020 : सासाराम सीट पर है 40 वर्षों से कुशवाहा का कब्जा". prabhat khabar. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
4. "Sasaram Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.

External links

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