2025 Assembly Elections Results of Barari Assembly Constituency

2025 Assembly Elections Results of Barari Assembly Constituency

Party	Candidates	Votes Polled
Janata Dal (United)	Bijay Singh	107842	Won
Congress	Tauquir Alam	96858
All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen	Md Matiur Rahman	5846

One of the seven assembly constituencies located in the district of Katihar in Bihar, Barari has elected Bijay Singh Nishad who had won the seat by defeating his nearest rival and incumbent MLA Neeraj Kumar of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) by a margin of 10,438 votes in the last general assembly elections to Bihar in 2020.

In that election, while Bijay Singh Nishad received 81,752 votes, Neeraj Kumar got 71,314 votes and was followed by LJP’s Bibhasha Chandra Choudhary who received 7,920 votes.

Mansoor Alam had earlier claimed the seat in 1985, 1990 and 2000. While his win in 1985 came as a candidate of the Lok Dal, he won the seat in 1990 and 2000 on the tickets of Janata Dal and RJD.

Earlier Bibhasha Chandra Choudhary had been elected from the Barari assembly seat in October/November elections in 2005 on the ticket of the BJP by defeating Muhammed Shakur, then sitting NCP MLA, who had emerged victorious in the previous assembly elections in February in 2005.

Barari seat went in favour of the Congress last time in 1980 when it candidate Karuneshwar Singh trounced Sapana Devi of the Janata Party.

Barari is one of the seven assembly constituencies that combine to form the parliamentary constituency of Katihar which is currently represented by Tariq Anwar of Congress who won the seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Other five assembly constituencies that fall under the Katihar Lok Sabha seat are Korha, Balrampur, Katihar, Kadwa, Pranpur and Manihari.

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