Kusheshwar Asthan | |
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Constituency No. 78 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | Bihar |
District | Darbhanga |
LS constituency | Samastipur |
Established | 2008 |
Reservation | SC |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Janata Dal (United) |
Elected year | 2021 |
Kusheshwar Asthan is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar, headquartered in the town of Kusheshwar Asthan. It is reserved for Scheduled Castes.
As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 78 Kusheshwar Asthan Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Kusheshwar Asthan and Kusheshwar Asthan Purbi community development blocks; Uchhti, Afzala, Akbarpur Baink, Sonpur Paghari, Ganaura Tarwara, Ladaho, Pokhram North and Pokhram South of Biraul CD Block.[1]
Kusheshwar Asthan Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 23 Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).[1]
Year | Name | Party | |
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Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
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2010 | Shashi Bhushan Hazari | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2015 | Janata Dal | ||
2020 | |||
2021^[2] | Aman Bhushan Hajari |
^by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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JD(U) | Aman Bhushan Hajari | 59,887 | 45.72 | +6.17 | |
RJD | Ganesh Bharti | 47,192 | 36.02 | New | |
LJP | Anju Devi | 5,623 | 4.29 | −5.50 | |
INC | Atirek Kumar | 5,603 | 4.28 | −29.98 | |
Margin of victory | 12,695 | 9.70 | |||
Turnout | 1,31,007 | 50.92 | |||
JD(U) hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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JD(U) | Shashi Bhushan Hazari | 53,980 | 39.55 | ||
INC | Ashok Kumar | 46,758 | 34.26 | ||
LJP | Poonam Kumari | 13,362 | 9.79 | ||
IND | Kameshwar Ram | 3,864 | 2.83 | ||
IND | Yogi Chaupal | 3,864 | 2.56 | ||
Majority | 7,222 | 5.42 | |||
Turnout | 1,36,481 | 54.32 | |||
JD(U) hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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JD(U) | Shashi Bhushan Hazari | 50,062 | 43.04 | ||
LJP | Dhananjay Kumar (A) Mrinal Paswan | 30,212 | 25.98 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 7,183 | 6.18 | ||
CPI | Rajendra Prasad | 5,706 | 4.91 | ||
IND | Vinay Kumar | 4,678 | 4.02 | ||
Majority | 19,850 | 18.20 | |||
Turnout | 1,16,303 | 51.17 | |||
JD(U) gain from BJP | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Shashi Bhushan Hajari | 28,576 | 31.58 | ||
LJP | Ramchandra Paswan | 23,064 | 25.49 | ||
INC | Ashok Kumar | 17,142 | 18.95 | ||
IND | Ramottar Paswan | 7,549 | 8.34 | ||
IND | Ram Bahadur Bharti | 3,084 | 3.41 | ||
Majority | 5,512 | 6.09 | |||
Turnout | 90,475 | 45.59 | |||
BJP win (new seat) |
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