Sahebganj

Overview & 2025 Context

Sahebganj, Legislative Assembly number 98 in Muzaffarpur district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2025 Bihar polls. Raju Kumar Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 106,322 votes (48.43%), defeating Prithwinath Ray (RJD), who polled 92,800 (42.27%). The victory margin was 13,522 votes. Of 301,544 electors, 219,620 votes were polled and turnout stood at 72.83%.

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: Raju Kumar Singh (BJP, 106,322 / 48.43%); Prithwinath Ray (RJD, 92,800 / 42.27%); Thakur Hari Kishore Singh (Jan Suraaj, 4,197 / 1.91%); VIKKY KUMAR (IND, 4,187 / 1.91%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Raju Kumar Singh and Prithwinath Ray is the binding fact for seat 98, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 13,522 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Muzaffarpur is the Tirhut division headquarters and a commercial centre of north Bihar, known for lychee orchards and a mix of urban wards with peri-urban agrarian belts. Administratively, Sahebganj is Assembly Constituency number 98 under Muzaffarpur (headquarters: Muzaffarpur). 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. Sahebganj sits inside that Muzaffarpur 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: RAJU KUMAR SINGH (VSIP) by 15,333 votes; 2015: RAMVICHAR RAI (RJD) by 10,660 votes; 2010: RAJU KUMAR SINGH (JD(U)) by 4,916 votes; 2005: RAJU KUMAR SINGH (LJP) by 12,600 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Raju Kumar Singh (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 98 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: 301,544. Votes polled: 219,620. Turnout: 72.83%. Winner Raju Kumar Singh (BJP): 106,322 (48.43%); runner-up Prithwinath Ray (RJD): 92,800 (42.27%); margin: 13,522 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 106,213 (48.51%), female 112,723 (51.49%), other 1.

Turnout 72.83% with 219,620 votes from 301,544 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Muzaffarpur.

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 Muzaffarpur, voters also weighed urban development, orchard incomes, road connectivity. a comfortable but contested win for Raju Kumar Singh (BJP) against Prithwinath Ray (RJD) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 98.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Sahebganj is narrower: Raju Kumar Singh (BJP) outpolled Prithwinath Ray (RJD) by 13,522 votes under 72.83% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 98.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Sahebganj. Raju Kumar Singh (BJP) converted 106,322 votes; Prithwinath Ray (RJD) had 92,800. Turnout 72.83% and margin 13,522 in seat 98 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 301,544, votes polled 219,620, and the head-to-head between Raju Kumar Singh and Prithwinath Ray. District cues in Muzaffarpur 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.