Bahadurganj

Overview & 2025 Context

Bahadurganj, Assembly Constituency number 52 in Kishanganj district, produced a clear mandate in the 2025 Bihar polls. Md Tauseef Alam of All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) finished first with 87,315 votes (40.21%), defeating Mohammed Masawar Alam (INC), who polled 58,589 (26.98%). The victory margin was 28,726 votes. Of 291,151 electors, 217,162 votes were polled and turnout stood at 74.59%.

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 segment, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Md Tauseef Alam (AIMIM, 87,315 / 40.21%); Mohammed Masawar Alam (INC, 58,589 / 26.98%); Mohammad Kalimuddin (LJPRV, 57,195 / 26.34%); Barun Kumar Singh (Jan Suraaj, 3,193 / 1.47%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Md Tauseef Alam and Mohammed Masawar Alam is the binding fact for seat 52, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 28,726 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Kishanganj is Bihar’s north-easternmost Seemanchal district near West Bengal and Nepal corridors, with tea-garden fringe influences and dense rural Muslim–mixed demography in many blocks. Administratively, Bahadurganj is Legislative Assembly number 52 under Kishanganj (headquarters: Kishanganj). 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. Bahadurganj sits inside that Kishanganj 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: MOHAMMAD ANZAR NAYEEMI (AIMIM) by 45,215 votes; 2015: M.D. TAUSEEF ALAM (INC) by 13,942 votes; 2010: MOHAMMAD TOUSIF ALAM (INC) by 3,799 votes; 2000: ZAHIDUR RAHMAN (INC) by 12,647 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Md Tauseef Alam (AIMIM) in Assembly Constituency number 52 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: 291,151. Votes polled: 217,162. Turnout: 74.59%. Winner Md Tauseef Alam (AIMIM): 87,315 (40.21%); runner-up Mohammed Masawar Alam (INC): 58,589 (26.98%); margin: 28,726 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 96,711 (44.71%), female 119,610 (55.29%).

Turnout 74.59% with 217,162 votes from 291,151 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Kishanganj.

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 Kishanganj, voters also weighed border economy, floods, education and health access. a clear mandate for Md Tauseef Alam (AIMIM) against Mohammed Masawar Alam (INC) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 52.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Bahadurganj is narrower: Md Tauseef Alam (AIMIM) outpolled Mohammed Masawar Alam (INC) by 28,726 votes under 74.59% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 52.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Bahadurganj. Md Tauseef Alam (AIMIM) converted 87,315 votes; Mohammed Masawar Alam (INC) had 58,589. Turnout 74.59% and margin 28,726 in seat 52 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 291,151, votes polled 217,162, and the head-to-head between Md Tauseef Alam and Mohammed Masawar Alam. District cues in Kishanganj 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.