Arrah

Overview & 2025 Context

Arrah, Legislative Assembly number 194 in Bhojpur district, produced a clear mandate in the 2025 Bihar polls. Sanjay Singh (tiger) of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 94,201 votes (50.98%), defeating Quyamuddin Ansari (CPI(ML)(L)), who polled 74,620 (40.38%). The victory margin was 19,581 votes. Of 327,553 electors, 184,815 votes were polled and turnout stood at 56.42%.

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 Singh (tiger) (BJP, 94,201 / 50.98%); Quyamuddin Ansari (CPI(ML)(L), 74,620 / 40.38%); Dr. Vijay Kumar Gupta (Jan Suraaj, 5,800 / 3.14%); Amardeep Kumar Jai (IND, 1,183 / 64%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Sanjay Singh (tiger) and Quyamuddin Ansari is the binding fact for seat 194, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 19,581 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Bhojpur, headquartered at Arrah, lies west of Patna on productive plains with a strong rural–small town political culture. Administratively, Arrah is Assembly Constituency number 194 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. Arrah 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: Amrendra Pratap singh (BJP) by 3,002 votes; 2015: MOHAMMAD NAWAZ ALAM (RJD) by 666 votes; 2010: Amrendra Pratap singh (BJP) by 18,940 votes; 2005: Amrendra Pratap singh (BJP) by 14,247 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Sanjay Singh (tiger) (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 194 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: 327,553. Votes polled: 184,815. Turnout: 56.42%. Winner Sanjay Singh (tiger) (BJP): 94,201 (50.98%); runner-up Quyamuddin Ansari (CPI(ML)(L)): 74,620 (40.38%); margin: 19,581 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 99,061 (53.98%), female 84,453 (46.02%).

Turnout 56.42% with 184,815 votes from 327,553 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 clear mandate for Sanjay Singh (tiger) (BJP) against Quyamuddin Ansari (CPI(ML)(L)) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 194.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Arrah is narrower: Sanjay Singh (tiger) (BJP) outpolled Quyamuddin Ansari (CPI(ML)(L)) by 19,581 votes under 56.42% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 194.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Arrah. Sanjay Singh (tiger) (BJP) converted 94,201 votes; Quyamuddin Ansari (CPI(ML)(L)) had 74,620. Turnout 56.42% and margin 19,581 in seat 194 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 327,553, votes polled 184,815, and the head-to-head between Sanjay Singh (tiger) and Quyamuddin Ansari. 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.