Sasaram Assembly constituency

Sasaram Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 208 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Rohtas
Lok Sabha 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]

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.

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 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 first as well as second 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]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Sasaram^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Rajesh Kumar Gupta	83,303	46.54	1.02
	JD(U)	Ashok Kumar	56,880	31.78
	LJP	Rameshwar Chaurasiya	21,426	11.97
	Independent	Muneshwar Gupta	2,463	1.38
	Independent	Deen Dayal Singh	2,178	1.22	0.79
	Independent	Satyanand Kumar	1,691	0.94	0.11
	NOTA	None of the above	1,093	0.61	1.26
Majority			26,423	14.76	3.49
Turnout			178,993	51.13	2.08
	RJD hold		Swing

• List of constituencies of Bihar Legislative Assembly

• "Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.