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2025 Assembly Elections Results of Gaya Town Vidhan Sabha Constituency

Contesting Candidates for Gaya Town Assembly constituency for Bihar Assembly Elections 2025    

Party

Candidates

Votes Polled

Result

BJP

Prem Kumar

90878 

Won

Congress

Akhaury Onkar Nath

64455 

Lost

Jan Suraaj Party

Dhirendra Agarwal

4479 

Lost

One of the ten assembly constituencies located in the Gaya district of Bihar, Gaya Town seat was won by Prem Kumar of the BJP for the record ninth time in the 2025 assembly polls in Bihar.

In this election, Prem Kumar, who has been representing the seat since 1990, had polled 90878 votes to defeat Akhaury Onkar Nath of the Congress by a margin 26423 votes. Akhaury Onkar Nath received 64455 votes and was followed by Jan Suraaj Party nominee Dhirendra Agarwal who secured 4479 votes.

The Congress had claimed the seat last time in 1985 when its candidate Jai Kumar Palit emerged visctoriosu from the seat.   In the previous assembly elections in 1980 too, he had won the seat.

Gaya Town had elected Sushila Sahay of the Janata Party in 1977 when she trounced Yugal Kishore Prasad of the Congress by a margin of 8268 votes. Yugal Kishore Prasad had become a Congress MLA from this constituency in 1972.  

Gaya Town is one of the seven assembly constituencies that combine to create the Gaya parliamentary constituency currently represented by Hindustani Awam Morcha’s Jitan Ram Manjhi who won the seat by defeating his nearest RJD rival Kumar Sarvjeet by a margin of 1,01,812 votes in the last parliamentary elections in 2024.

Bodh Gaya, Barachatti, Sherghati, Belaganj, Wazirganj and Guraru are the other six assembly constituencies falling under Gaya Lok Sabha seat which is reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled castes.

 

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