Bihar, October 17: Buxar Vidhan sabha constituency is one of the 243 assembly constituencies of Bihar Vidhan Sabha. The seat was won by Congress party's Sanjay Kumar Tiwari. Buxar comes under Buxar (Lok Sabha constituency) for parliamentary elections. This constituency includes Buxar and Chausa blocks of Buxar district. Voting for the Buxar election was held on October 28 in the first phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Counting of votes for the Bihar polls took place on November 10.

As per the estimates of 2011 census, out of total 394859 population, 71.92 percent is rural and 28.08 percent is urban population. The Scheduled castes (SC) and Scheduled tribes (ST) ratio is 14.38 and 1.85, respectively out of the total population. Bihar went to polls in three phases. Phase 1 voting was held on October 28 in 71 Assembly constituencies. Arwal Vidhan Sabha Seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: Candidates, MLA, Schedule And Result Date.

The candidates for Bihar election 2020 from the Buxar constituency were Parshuram Chaubey from BJP, Ashwini Kumar Rai from Hindu Samaj Party among other candidates.  Ashwini Kumar Choubey  from BJP is the present Lok Sabha MP of Buxar and Sanjay Kumar Tiwari alias Munna Tiwari from Congress party became the MLA of Buxar Legislative Assembly in 2015.

The NDA alliance is likely to emerge as the clear favourite to win the Bihar assembly elections by securing 160 of the 243 seats, according to an opinion poll released by Times Now-CVoter. As per the IANS C-Voter Bihar opinion poll survey, 30.9% of the people are still backing Nitish Kumar as the most preferable candidate to be the chief minister again.

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Ashwini Kumar RaiHindu Samaj Party796
Ram Nath ThakurBhartiya Sablog Party733
Arun Kumar OjhaIND723
Sanjay Kr. Tiwari @ Munna Tiwari (Current MLA)INC59417
Aakash Kumar SinghIND5794
Parshuram ChaubeyBJP55525
Bheem PrasadIND464
Kamal Narayan YadavIND406
Sanjay Kumar ChaubeyRashtriya Jan Jan Party323
Ravi RajIND1461
Raja Ram SinghIND1384
Gobardhn MisaraIND1141
Sudhakar MishraIND1054
Nirmal Kumar SinghRLSPNA

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