Bakhri (SC)

Overview & 2025 Context

Bakhri, Legislative Assembly seat number 147 in Begusarai district, produced a clear mandate in the 2025 Bihar polls. Sanjay Kumar of Lok Janshakti Party(ram Vilas) (LJPRV) finished first with 98,511 votes (47.67%), defeating Suryakant Paswan (CPI), who polled 81,193 (39.29%). The victory margin was 17,318 votes. Of 294,566 electors, 206,653 votes were polled and turnout stood at 70.16%.

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 Assembly Constituency, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Sanjay Kumar (LJPRV, 98,511 / 47.67%); Suryakant Paswan (CPI, 81,193 / 39.29%); Sanjay Kumar (Jan Suraaj, 11,529 / 5.58%); Sanjiv Kumar Paswan (IND, 2,968 / 1.44%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Sanjay Kumar and Suryakant Paswan is the binding fact for seat 147, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 17,318 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Begusarai on the Ganga belt combines industry, oil-refinery linked employment lore, and fertile agrarian hinterlands in the Munger division. Administratively, Bakhri is Legislative Assembly segment number 147 under Begusarai (headquarters: Begusarai). 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. Bakhri sits inside that Begusarai 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: Suryakant Paswan (CPI) by 777 votes; 2015: UPENDRA PASWAN (RJD) by 40,256 votes; 2010: RAMANAND RAM (BJP) by 18,412 votes; 2005: RAM BINOD PASWAN (CPI) by 14,432 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Sanjay Kumar (LJPRV) in Legislative Assembly number 147 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: 294,566. Votes polled: 206,653. Turnout: 70.16%. Winner Sanjay Kumar (LJPRV): 98,511 (47.67%); runner-up Suryakant Paswan (CPI): 81,193 (39.29%); margin: 17,318 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 100,162 (48.61%), female 105,893 (51.39%), other 1.

Turnout 70.16% with 206,653 votes from 294,566 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Begusarai.

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 Begusarai, voters also weighed industrial jobs, pollution concerns, farm hinterland. a clear mandate for Sanjay Kumar (LJPRV) against Suryakant Paswan (CPI) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 147.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Bakhri is narrower: Sanjay Kumar (LJPRV) outpolled Suryakant Paswan (CPI) by 17,318 votes under 70.16% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 147.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Bakhri. Sanjay Kumar (LJPRV) converted 98,511 votes; Suryakant Paswan (CPI) had 81,193. Turnout 70.16% and margin 17,318 in seat 147 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 294,566, votes polled 206,653, and the head-to-head between Sanjay Kumar and Suryakant Paswan. District cues in Begusarai 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.