Buxar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 parliamentary seats in Bihar. Currently dominated by the BJP, Buxar previously has been a stronghold the Congress too. Six assembly constituencies - Brahampur, Buxar, Dumraon, Rajpur, Ramgarh and Dinara - fall under Buxar. These seats saw voting in the first phase of the assembly election in Bihar on October 28.
Here is a look at the performance of all the parties in these six seats in Bihar Assembly Election 2020:
Brahampur assembly election 2020 result updates: RJD candidate Shambhu Nath Yadav is leading while Hulas Pandey of the LJP is trailing by a huge margin of 51,141 votes.
Brahampur had a voting population of 312,748 in the 2015 assembly election which included 168,417 males and nearly 145,000 females. RJD’s Shambu Nath Yadav had defeated BJP’s Vivek Thakur by a margin of 30,776 votes and secured. Nath secured a 52 per cent vote share for the RJD. Read more about Brahampur constituency
Buxar assembly election 2020 result updates: The BJP and the Congress are the main rivals in this constituency. As per current trends, Congress leader Sanjay Kr Tiwari is leading by a margin of 2,457 votes while Parshuram Chaubey is trailing. Earlier, Parshuram was leading in the constituency.
The 2015 mandate was won by Congress’ Tiwari after he defeated BJP’s Pradeep Dubey by a margin of just over 10,000 votes. Read more about Buxar constituency
Dumraon assembly election 2020 result updates: Ajit Kumar Singh of the CPI-ML, is leading Dumraon by a margin of 16,669 votes while JD(U)’s Anjum Ara is the runner-up.
JD(U)’s Dadan Yadav emerged as the winner in the assembly election of 2015 by upstaging RLSP’s Ram Bihari Singh by a massive margin of 30,339 votes. The electorate strength during this year stood at 292,754 comprising 157,466 males and 135,280 females. Read more about Dumraon constituency
Rajpur assembly election 2020 result updates: The Congress and the JD(U) who fought as allies in the 2015 Bihar assembly election are now immediate rivals in 2020 in Rajpur- which is reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs). Vishwanath Ram of the Congress is currently leading while sitting MLA Santosh Kumar Nirala of the JD(U) is trailing. The margin between Ram and Nirala is 19,036 votes.
Nirala had won the assembly election in 2015 after defeating BJP’s Bishawnath Ram. Nirala secured 84,184 votes while Ram 51,396 votes. BSP candidate Lalji Ram stood third and could only secure 17,031 votes. Read more about Rajpur constituency
Ramgarh assembly election 2020 result updates: Ramgarh assembly constituency is seeing a triangular contest between the BJP, BSP and RJD. Current trends show Sudhakar Singh of the RJD has overtaken Ambika Singh of the BSP. Sudhakar is leadin by 189 votes.
While this was opposite in the 2015 assembly election. BJP’s Ashok Kumar Singh triumphed over Ambika who was then with the RJD. Ashok secured 57,501 votes while Ambika managed to get 49,490 votes. Read more about Ramgarh constituency
Dinara assembly election 2020 result updates: Current trends now show Vijay Kumar Mandal of the RJD is leading by a margin of 8,079 votes while Rajendra Prasad Singh of the LJP is trailing.
A total of 17 candidates were in the fray during the 2015 election. JD(U)’s Jai Kumar Singh defeated BJP leader Rajendra Prasad- who was then with the BJP by a margin of nearly 2,700 votes. The electorate strength of Dinara in 2015 was 272,725 which included 146,630 males and 126,089 females. Read more about Dinara constituency
The 243-member Bihar assembly went to polls in three phases, starting October 28 the first with 71 constituencies on October 28, the second with 94 constituencies on November 3 and the third with 78 constituencies on November 7. The top contenders for this year were the NDA, the Mahagathbandhan and the Chirag Paswan led LJP. NDA fielded current chief minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar as its CM face for 2020 too.
The Mahagathbandhan fielded 31-year-old Tejashwi Yadav from the RJD and he has become a popular choice for the chief minister’s post by people in Bihar, according to the exit polls. Exit polls, which have gone wrong in the past, have indicated that Bihar wants a change of government and the NDA may not repeat its earlier performance.
