Buxar Assembly constituency

Buxar Assembly constituency is one of the 243 assembly constituencies of Bihar Vidhan Sabha.^[1] It comes under Buxar (Lok Sabha constituency) for parliamentary elections. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Buxar will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[2][3]

Buxar Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 200 - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Buxar
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sanjay Kumar Tiwari
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2020

Parts

This constituency includes Buxar and Chausa blocks of Buxar district.^[4]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[5]	Party
1952	Lakshmi Kant Tiwari		Indian National Congress
1957	Sheokumar Thakur
1962	Jagnarain Trivedi
1967	P. Chatterjee		Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Jagnarain Trivedi		Indian National Congress
1972
1977
1980
1985	Srikant Pathak
1990	Manju Prakash		Communist Party of India
1995
2000	Sukhada Pandey		Bharatiya Janata Party
2005
2005	Hriday Narayan Singh		Bahujan Samaj Party
2010	Sukhada Pandey		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015	Sanjay Kumar Tiwari		Indian National Congress
2020

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Buxar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sanjay Kumar Tiwari	59,417	36.38
	BJP	Parshuram Chaubey	55,525	33.99
	Rashtriya Bhartiya Sangh	Krishna Kumar Pandey	30,489	18.62
Majority			59,417	36.38
Turnout			145,431	41.95
Registered electors				[6]
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	INC Hold