Paliganj

Overview & 2025 Context

Paliganj, Assembly Constituency number 190 in Patna district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2025 Bihar polls. Sandeep Saurav of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) (CPI(ML)(L)) finished first with 81,105 votes (44.48%), defeating Sunil Kumar (LJPRV), who polled 74,450 (40.83%). The victory margin was 6,655 votes. Of 285,778 electors, 182,479 votes were polled and turnout stood at 63.85%.

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: Sandeep Saurav (CPI(ML)(L), 81,105 / 44.48%); Sunil Kumar (LJPRV, 74,450 / 40.83%); Shyam Nandan Sharma (Jan Suraaj, 6,612 / 3.63%); Shambhu Kumar (IND, 3,747 / 2.06%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Sandeep Saurav and Sunil Kumar is the binding fact for seat 190, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 6,655 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Patna district contains Bihar’s capital region on the southern bank of the Ganga, mixing dense urban assembly segments with peri-urban and rural southern blocks. Administratively, Paliganj is Legislative Assembly number 190 under Patna (headquarters: Patna). 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. Paliganj sits inside that Patna 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: Sandeep Saurav (CPI(ML)(L)) by 30,915 votes; 2015: JAY VARDHAN YADAV (RJD) by 24,453 votes; 2010: DR. USHA VIDYARTHI (BJP) by 10,242 votes; 2000: DINANATH SINGH (RJD) by 36,337 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Sandeep Saurav (CPI(ML)(L)) in Assembly Constituency number 190 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: 285,778. Votes polled: 182,479. Turnout: 63.85%. Winner Sandeep Saurav (CPI(ML)(L)): 81,105 (44.48%); runner-up Sunil Kumar (LJPRV): 74,450 (40.83%); margin: 6,655 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 95,029 (52.26%), female 86,797 (47.74%).

Turnout 63.85% with 182,479 votes from 285,778 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Patna.

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 Patna, voters also weighed urban services, traffic and flooding in wards, peri-urban land use. a comfortable but contested win for Sandeep Saurav (CPI(ML)(L)) against Sunil Kumar (LJPRV) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 190.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Paliganj is narrower: Sandeep Saurav (CPI(ML)(L)) outpolled Sunil Kumar (LJPRV) by 6,655 votes under 63.85% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 190.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Paliganj. Sandeep Saurav (CPI(ML)(L)) converted 81,105 votes; Sunil Kumar (LJPRV) had 74,450. Turnout 63.85% and margin 6,655 in seat 190 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 285,778, votes polled 182,479, and the head-to-head between Sandeep Saurav and Sunil Kumar. District cues in Patna 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.