Sasaram Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 208 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictRohtas
ReservationNone
Elected year2020

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 group has been elected from this constituency. The victory of Ram Sewak Singh in 1980 bihar assembly elections was followed by victory of only Kushwaha candidates from this seat and from the 1990 onwards, the second as well as third 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 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 Hindustani Shoshit Dal
1977 Bipin Behari Sinha Janata Party
1980 Ram Sewak Singh
1985 Lok Dal
1990 Jawahar Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party
1995
2000 Ashok Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005 Jawahar Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010
2015 Ashok Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020 Rajesh Kumar Gupta

Election Results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Sasaram
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Janata Dal (United) Ashok Kumar
LJP Rameshwar Chaurasiya
RLSP Chandrasekhar Singh
PP Amla Tripathi
RJD Rajesh Kumar Gupta
NOTA None of the above
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing

See also

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.
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