Pipra

Overview & 2025 Context

Pipra, Assembly Constituency number 42 in Supaul district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2025 Bihar polls. Rambilash Kamat of Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) finished first with 107,041 votes (48%), defeating Anil Kumar (CPI(ML)(L)), who polled 69,265 (31.06%). The victory margin was 37,776 votes. Of 305,165 electors, 223,094 votes were polled and turnout stood at 73.11%.

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: Rambilash Kamat (JD(U), 107,041 / 48%); Anil Kumar (CPI(ML)(L), 69,265 / 31.06%); Laxmi Kant Bharti (IND, 12,014 / 5.39%); Indradev Sah (Jan Suraaj, 5,519 / 2.47%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Rambilash Kamat and Anil Kumar is the binding fact for seat 42, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 37,776 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Supaul in the Kosi division is among Bihar’s most flood-exposed districts, shaped by Kosi embankments, silted channels and agrarian resettlement politics. Administratively, Pipra is Legislative Assembly seat number 42 under Supaul (headquarters: Supaul). 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. Pipra sits inside that Supaul 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: SHYAMBABU PRASAD YADAV (BJP) by 8,177 votes; 2020: Rambilash Kamat (JD(U)) by 19,245 votes; 2015: SHYAMBABU PRASAD (BJP) by 3,930 votes; 2015: YADUBANSH KUMAR (RJD) by 36,369 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Rambilash Kamat (JD(U)) in Assembly Constituency number 42 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: 305,165. Votes polled: 223,094. Turnout: 73.11%. Winner Rambilash Kamat (JD(U)): 107,041 (48%); runner-up Anil Kumar (CPI(ML)(L)): 69,265 (31.06%); margin: 37,776 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 101,040 (45.53%), female 120,874 (54.47%), other 2.

Turnout 73.11% with 223,094 votes from 305,165 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Supaul.

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 Supaul, voters also weighed Kosi floods, embankments, rehabilitation. a landslide verdict for Rambilash Kamat (JD(U)) against Anil Kumar (CPI(ML)(L)) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 42.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Pipra is narrower: Rambilash Kamat (JD(U)) outpolled Anil Kumar (CPI(ML)(L)) by 37,776 votes under 73.11% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 42.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Pipra. Rambilash Kamat (JD(U)) converted 107,041 votes; Anil Kumar (CPI(ML)(L)) had 69,265. Turnout 73.11% and margin 37,776 in seat 42 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 305,165, votes polled 223,094, and the head-to-head between Rambilash Kamat and Anil Kumar. District cues in Supaul 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.