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Party |
Candidate |
Votes Polled |
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BJP |
Rama Nishad |
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VIP |
Bhogendra Sahni |
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JSP |
Radha Raman |
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Located in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar, Aurai is currently held by BJP's Ram Surat Rai who won the seat second time in the last assembly polls to Bihar in 2020. Earlier Ram Surat Rai had won the elections to the Aurai assembly constituency in 2010.
Earlier Surendra Kumar Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) had won elections to the Aurai assembly seat in 2009 and 2015.
In that election, while Ram Surat Rai polled 38422 votes, his nearest rival, Surendra Kumar of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), received 26681 votes and was followed by Ganesh Prasad Yadav, a former six- term Aurai MLA, who secured 13507 votes. Ganesh Prasad Yadav entered the fray as a nominee of the Deve Gowda led Janata Dal (Secular) after the seat was allotted to the BJP under the seat sharing arrangement with the Nitish headed Janata Dal (United).
Earlier Arjun Ray of the JD (U) had won from the Aurai assembly constituency in 2005.
Ganesh Prasad Yadav had
also claimed the Aurai assembly seat in 1977, 1980, 1985, 1990 and 1995 as a
member of the Janata Party and Janata Dal which later disintegrated into several splinter groups
such as RJD, JD (U), Biju Janata Dal (BJD) of Naveen Patnayak, JD(S), Indian
National Lok Dal (INLD) of Om Prakash Chautala, Rashtirya Lok Dal.
Aurai seat went in favour of the Congress last time in 1972 when its candidate Ram Babu Singh was elected from the constituency.
Aurai is one of the six assembly constituencies that combine to form the parliamentary constituency of Muzaffarpur which is currently represented by Raj Bhushan Choudhary of the BJP who won the seat by defeating his nearest Congress rival Ajay Nishad by a massive margin of 2,34,927 votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Other five assembly
constituencies that fall under the Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha seat are Gaighat,
Bochahan, Sakra, Kurhani and Muzaffarpur.
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