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Begusarai, one of the seven assembly constituencies in the district of the same name in Bihar, is currently held by the BJP legislator Kundan Kumar who won the seat by defeating his nearest rival and then incumbent MLA MLA Amita Bhushan of Congress by a margin of 4,554 votes in the last assembly elections to Bihar in 2020.
In that election, while Kundan Kumar had polled 74,217 votes, the Congress candidate had secured 69,663 votes and was followed by independent candidate Rajesh Kumar who received 18,002 votes.
Amita Bhushan had earlier won form the Begusarai Assembly Constituency in 2015.
The BJP legislator Surendra Mehta had won the seat in the assembly elections to Bihar in 2010. Begusarai was won by Srikrishna Prasad Singh of the BJP in a byepoll in 2009. The by-election was necessitated due to the resignation of the sitting BJP MLA Bhola Singh who was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Nawada parliamentary constituency in 2009. Sri Krishna Prasad Singh was denied ticket by the party for 2010 assembly election to Begusarai .
Bhola Singh had won the Begusarai assembly seat in 2000 and both the elections in 2005 on the ticket of the BJP. It is very much to the point to underline the fact that Bihar went to the assembly polls twice in 2005 because the earlier one held in February threw hung assembly necessitating the holding of the second assembly polls in the months of October/November of the same year.
Begusarai is one of the seven assembly constituencies that combine to form the parliamentary constituency of the same name which is currently represented by Giriraj Singh.
Other six assembly constituencies that fall under the Begusarai Lok Sabha seat are Bakhri, Bachhwara, Cheria Bariarpur, Teghra, Matihani and Sahebpur Kamal.
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