Raxaul

Overview & 2025 Context

Raxaul, Assembly Constituency number 10 in Purvi Champaran district, produced a clear mandate in the 2025 Bihar polls. Pramod Kumar Sinha of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 106,765 votes (49.55%), defeating Shyam Bihari Prasad (INC), who polled 88,887 (41.26%). The victory margin was 17,878 votes. Of 286,131 electors, 215,456 votes were polled and turnout stood at 75.3%.

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: Pramod Kumar Sinha (BJP, 106,765 / 49.55%); Shyam Bihari Prasad (INC, 88,887 / 41.26%); Kapil Dev Prasad (Jan Suraaj, 14,656 / 6.8%); Dhurendra Kumar (IND, 1,460 / 68%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Pramod Kumar Sinha and Shyam Bihari Prasad is the binding fact for seat 10, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 17,878 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

East Champaran (Purvi Champaran) is headquartered at Motihari in the Tirhut belt. The district lies on plains drained by the Gandak, Burhi Gandak and Bagmati systems; agriculture dominates livelihoods and seasonal flood–drought stress is a recurring administrative concern. Administratively, Raxaul is Legislative Assembly seat number 10 under Purvi Champaran (headquarters: Motihari). 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. Raxaul sits inside that Purvi Champaran 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: Pramod Kumar Sinha (BJP) by 36,923 votes; 2015: AJAY KUMAR SINGH (BJP) by 3,169 votes; 2010: DR. AJAY KUMAR SINGH (BJP) by 10,117 votes; 2005: DR. AJAY KUMAR SINGH (BJP) by 2,826 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Pramod Kumar Sinha (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 10 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: 286,131. Votes polled: 215,456. Turnout: 75.3%. Winner Pramod Kumar Sinha (BJP): 106,765 (49.55%); runner-up Shyam Bihari Prasad (INC): 88,887 (41.26%); margin: 17,878 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 110,537 (51.51%), female 104,059 (48.49%), other 3.

Turnout 75.3% with 215,456 votes from 286,131 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Purvi Champaran.

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 Purvi Champaran, voters also weighed flood embankments, farm incomes, border-area connectivity, rural roads. a clear mandate for Pramod Kumar Sinha (BJP) against Shyam Bihari Prasad (INC) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 10.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Raxaul is narrower: Pramod Kumar Sinha (BJP) outpolled Shyam Bihari Prasad (INC) by 17,878 votes under 75.3% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 10.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Raxaul. Pramod Kumar Sinha (BJP) converted 106,765 votes; Shyam Bihari Prasad (INC) had 88,887. Turnout 75.3% and margin 17,878 in seat 10 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 286,131, votes polled 215,456, and the head-to-head between Pramod Kumar Sinha and Shyam Bihari Prasad. District cues in Purvi Champaran 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.