Sasaram Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Sasaram Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 208 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Rohtas
LS 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 group 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 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]
1957	Bipin Behari Sinha	Praja Socialist Party
1957	Ramadhar Dusadh	Praja Socialist Party
1962	Dukhan Ram	Indian National Congress
1967	Vinod Bihari Singh	Indian National Congress
1969	Bipin Behari Sinha	Praja Socialist Party
1972	Ram Sewak Singh	Hindustani Shoshit Dal
1977	Bipin Behari Sinha	Janata Party
1980	Ram Sewak Singh	Janata Party
1985	Ram Sewak Singh	Lok Dal
1990	Jawahar Prasad	Bharatiya Janata Party
1995	Jawahar Prasad	Bharatiya Janata Party
2000	Ashok Kumar	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Jawahar Prasad	Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2010
2015	Ashok Kumar	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Rajesh Kumar Gupta	Rashtriya Janata Dal

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Sasaram
Party		Candidate	Votes
	JD(U)	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

References

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