Bakhri Assembly constituency

Bakhri is an assembly constituency in Begusarai district in the Indian state of Bihar. The seat is reserved for SC

Bakhri
Constituency No. 147 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Begusarai
Lok Sabha constituency	Begusarai Lok Sabha
Established	1951
Total electors	270,948 (2020)
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Suryakant Paswan
Party	CPI
Alliance	Mahagathbandhan
Elected year	2020

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 147 Bakhri Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Bakhri, Dandari and Garhpura community development blocks; Pahsara(East), Nawkothi, Hasanpur Bagar, Rajakpur, Bishnupur, Samsa & Dafarpur gram panchayats of Naokothi CD Block.^[1]

Bakhri Assembly constituency is part of No. 24 Begusarai (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1952	Shivbrat Narain Sinha		Indian National Congress
1957
1962	Medni Paswan
1967	Yugal Kishore Sharma		Communist Party of India
1969
1972	Ram Chandra Paswan		Communist Party of India
1977
1980
1985	Ram Binod Paswan
1990
1995
2000	Ramanand Ram		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Ram Binod Paswan		Communist Party of India
2005
2010	Ramanand Ram		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Upendra Paswan		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020	Suryakant Paswan		Communist Party of India

Election results

2025

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2025: Bakhri

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LJP(RV)	Sanjay Paswan
	CPI	Suryakant Paswan
	JSP	Sanjay Kumar Paswan
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Bakhri^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI	Suryakant Paswan	72,177	44.14	+24.35
	BJP	Ramshankar Paswan	71,400	43.67	+21.71
	RLSP	Vijay Paswan	3,857	2.36
	Independent	Rajesh Kumar Rajak	2,454	1.5
	Rashtriya Jan Vikas Party	Satya Prakash	2,395	1.46
	Shoshit Samaj Dal	Tulsi Tanti	2,094	1.28
	JAP(L)	Ramanand Ram	1,946	1.19	+0.09
	NOTA	None of the above	2,313	1.41	−1.25
Majority			777	0.47	−26.83
Turnout			163,507	60.35	+0.67
	CPI gain from RJD		Swing	0.47%

2015

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2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bakhri constituency^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Upendra Paswan	72,632	49.26
	BJP	Ramadan Ram	32,376	21.96
	CPI	Suryakant Paswan	29,185	19.79
	NOTA	n/a	3,922	2.66
	Bhartiya Janhit Dal	Suresh Sada	1,710	1.16
	BSP	Vinod Kumar Das	1,694	1.15
	JAP(L)	Daso Paswan	1,619	1.1
	Independent	Vaijanath Paswan	1,562	1.06
	Independent	Surendra Paswan	1,451	0.98
	NOTA	None of the above	3,922	2.66
Majority			40,256	27.3
Turnout			147,461	59.68
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing	{{{swing}}}