Begusarai

Overview & 2025 Context

Begusarai, Assembly Constituency number 146 in Begusarai district, produced a clear mandate in the 2025 Bihar polls. Kundan Kumar of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 119,506 votes (52.31%), defeating Amita Bhushan (INC), who polled 88,874 (38.9%). The victory margin was 30,632 votes. Of 342,217 electors, 228,465 votes were polled and turnout stood at 66.76%.

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: Kundan Kumar (BJP, 119,506 / 52.31%); Amita Bhushan (INC, 88,874 / 38.9%); Surendra Kumar Sahani (Jan Suraaj, 7,773 / 3.4%); Md. Saddam Husain (IND, 2,912 / 1.27%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Kundan Kumar and Amita Bhushan is the binding fact for seat 146, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 30,632 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, Begusarai is Legislative Assembly seat number 146 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. Begusarai 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: Kundan Kumar (BJP) by 4,554 votes; 2015: Amita Bhushan (INC) by 16,531 votes; 2010: Surendra Mehta (BJP) by 19,618 votes; 2000: BHOLA PD. SINGH (BJP) by 8,350 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Kundan Kumar (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 146 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: 342,217. Votes polled: 228,465. Turnout: 66.76%. Winner Kundan Kumar (BJP): 119,506 (52.31%); runner-up Amita Bhushan (INC): 88,874 (38.9%); margin: 30,632 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 115,602 (50.82%), female 111,849 (49.17%), other 1.

Turnout 66.76% with 228,465 votes from 342,217 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 Kundan Kumar (BJP) against Amita Bhushan (INC) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 146.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Begusarai is narrower: Kundan Kumar (BJP) outpolled Amita Bhushan (INC) by 30,632 votes under 66.76% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 146.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Begusarai. Kundan Kumar (BJP) converted 119,506 votes; Amita Bhushan (INC) had 88,874. Turnout 66.76% and margin 30,632 in seat 146 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 342,217, votes polled 228,465, and the head-to-head between Kundan Kumar and Amita Bhushan. 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.