Agiaon (SC)

Overview & 2025 Context

Agiaon (SC), Assembly Constituency number 195 in Bhojpur district, produced a photo-finish in the 2025 Bihar polls. Mahesh Paswan of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 69,412 votes (45.2%), defeating Shiv Prakash Ranjan (CPI(ML)(L)), who polled 69,317 (45.14%). The victory margin was 95 votes. Of 263,836 electors, 153,729 votes were polled and turnout stood at 58.27%.

The 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election was a bipolar contest between the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan. Campaign discourse centred on unemployment, youth out-migration, welfare delivery, women’s schemes, caste arithmetic, and competing claims on jobs versus market-led growth, as reported across major coverage of the polls. In this Legislative Assembly seat, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Mahesh Paswan (BJP, 69,412 / 45.2%); Shiv Prakash Ranjan (CPI(ML)(L), 69,317 / 45.14%); Ramesh Kumar (Jan Suraaj, 3,882 / 2.53%); Shyam Bihari Choudhary (IND, 2,508 / 1.63%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Mahesh Paswan and Shiv Prakash Ranjan is the binding fact for seat 195, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 95 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Bhojpur, headquartered at Arrah, lies west of Patna on productive plains with a strong rural–small town political culture. Administratively, Agiaon (SC) is Assembly Constituency number 195 under Bhojpur (headquarters: Arrah). Like neighbouring segments, it mixes rural habitations and market nodes where roads, schools, health access and welfare delivery travel with voters as strongly as statewide narratives.

Geography here is not ornamental for election reading. Flood plains, market roads and block headquarters shape who can mobilise, who migrates for work, and which booth clusters decide close Assembly Constituency contests. Agiaon (SC) sits inside that Bhojpur administrative map even when national television talks only of alliances.

History & Past Election Trends

On the same constituency lineage, recent Legislative Assembly outcomes were — 2020: MANOJ MANZIL (CPI(ML)(L)) by 48,550 votes; 2015: — (—) by 0 votes; 2010: SHIVESH KUMAR (BJP) by 5,249 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Mahesh Paswan (BJP) in Legislative Assembly segment number 195 should be read as continuity where the same camp had dominated, or as another swing where the lineage had flipped before — never by treating the serial number alone as eternal identity.

Statistics & Gender-wise Polling Analysis

Electors: 263,836. Votes polled: 153,729. Turnout: 58.27%. Winner Mahesh Paswan (BJP): 69,412 (45.2%); runner-up Shiv Prakash Ranjan (CPI(ML)(L)): 69,317 (45.14%); margin: 95 — a photo-finish relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 78,232 (51.25%), female 74,409 (48.75%).

Turnout 58.27% with 153,729 votes from 263,836 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Bhojpur.

Issues That Drove Voting Behavior

Statewide themes included jobs and migration, welfare and women-centric schemes, caste coalitions, governance/law-and-order messaging, and local delivery of roads, flood control and farm support. In Bhojpur, voters also weighed farm incomes, canal irrigation, town amenities. a photo-finish for Mahesh Paswan (BJP) against Shiv Prakash Ranjan (CPI(ML)(L)) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 195.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Agiaon (SC) is narrower: Mahesh Paswan (BJP) outpolled Shiv Prakash Ranjan (CPI(ML)(L)) by 95 votes under 58.27% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 195.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Agiaon (SC). Mahesh Paswan (BJP) converted 69,412 votes; Shiv Prakash Ranjan (CPI(ML)(L)) had 69,317. Turnout 58.27% and margin 95 in seat 195 signal organisational reach across polling stations rather than a single-day mood swing alone.

For journalists and researchers, the safer frame is lineage continuity plus the published 2025 table: electors 263,836, votes polled 153,729, and the head-to-head between Mahesh Paswan and Shiv Prakash Ranjan. District cues in Bhojpur still matter — roads, floods, farm prices, migration and welfare delivery — but they must be weighed against what the EVM count actually recorded in this Assembly Constituency / Legislative Assembly seat.