Kusheshwar Asthan Assembly constituency

Kusheshwar Asthan is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar, headquartered in the town of Kusheshwar Asthan. It is reserved for Scheduled Castes.

Kusheshwar Asthan
Constituency No. 78 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Darbhanga
Lok Sabha constituency	Samastipur
Established	2008
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Aman Bhushan Hajari
Party	Janata Dal (United)
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 78 Kusheshwar Asthan Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Kusheshwar Asthan and Kusheshwar Asthan Purbi community development blocks; Uchhti, Afzala, Akbarpur Baink, Sonpur Paghari, Ganaura Tarwara, Ladaho, Pokhram North and Pokhram South of Biraul CD Block.^[1]

Kusheshwar Asthan Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 23 Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Member of legislative Assembly

Year	Name	Party
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Shashi Bhushan Hazari		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015			Janata Dal (United)
2020
2021^[2]	Aman Bhushan Hajari

^by-election

Election results

2021 by-election

By-election, 2021: Kusheshwar Asthan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Aman Bhushan Hajari	59,887	45.72	+6.17
	RJD	Ganesh Bharti	47,192	36.02	New
	LJP	Anju Devi	5,623	4.29	−5.50
	INC	Atirek Kumar	5,603	4.28	−29.98
Margin of victory			12,695	9.70
Turnout			1,31,007	50.92
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Kusheshwar Asthan^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Shashi Bhushan Hazari	53,980	39.55
	INC	Ashok Kumar	46,758	34.26
	LJP	Poonam Kumari	13,362	9.79
	IND	Kameshwar Ram	3,864	2.83
	IND	Yogi Chaupal	3,864	2.56
Majority			7,222	5.42
Turnout			1,36,481	54.32
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kusheshwar Asthan^[4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Shashi Bhushan Hazari	50,062	43.04
	LJP	Dhananjay Kumar (A) Mrinal Paswan	30,212	25.98
	NOTA	None of the above	7,183	6.18
	CPI	Rajendra Prasad	5,706	4.91
	IND	Vinay Kumar	4,678	4.02
Majority			19,850	18.20
Turnout			1,16,303	51.17
	JD(U) gain from BJP		Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Kusheshwar Asthan^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Shashi Bhushan Hajari	28,576	31.58
	LJP	Ramchandra Paswan	23,064	25.49
	INC	Ashok Kumar	17,142	18.95
	IND	Ramottar Paswan	7,549	8.34
	IND	Ram Bahadur Bharti	3,084	3.41
Majority			5,512	6.09
Turnout			90,475	45.59
	BJP win (new seat)