Samastipur Assembly constituency
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Samastipur Vidhan Sabha (assembly) constituency is in Samastipur district in the Indian state of Bihar.
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| Constituency No. 133 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Samastipur |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Samastipur |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 275,257 |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | JD(U) |
| Alliance | NDA |
| Elected year | 2025 |
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
Election results
2025
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JD(U) | Ashwamedh Devi | 95,728 | 48.14 | +9.77 | |
| RJD | Akhtarul Islam Sahin | 81,853 | 41.16 | −0.05 | |
| Independent | Chetna Jhamb | 6,193 | 3.11 | ||
| JSP | Manoj Kumar Singh | 4,938 | 2.48 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 4,527 | 2.28 | +1.17 | |
| Majority | 13,875 | 6.98 | +4.14 | ||
| Turnout | 198,865 | 72.25 | +12.7 | ||
| JD(U) gain from RJD | Swing | {{{swing}}} | |||
2020
| 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
| 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