2025 Assembly Elections Results of Amarpur Vidhan Sabha Constituency

Contesting Candidates for Amarpur Assembly constituency Assembly Elections 2025

Party	Candidate	Votes Polled
Janata Dal (U)	Jayant Raj	103944	Won
Congress	Jitendra Singh	70723	Lost
Jan Suraaj	Sujata Vaidya	4789	Lost

Amarpur

One of the five assembly segments located in the Banka district of Bihar, Amarpur is one of the six assembly segments, the combination of which goes on to create the parliamentary constituency of Banka currently represented by Giridhari Yadav of JD(U).

Jayant Raj Kushwaha had won the seat in 2025. In 2020 he had emerged vistorius fromt the seat.

Earlier, Janardan Manjhi of the Janata Dal (United) had won the seat in 2010 and 2015. In 2010 general assembly polls to the Bihar Legislative assembly he had defeated Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) by defeating its then sitting MLA Surendra Prasad Singh.

Surendra Prasad Singh had claimed the seat in 1995, 2000 and 2005. His first victory had come as a candidate of Janata Dal He won the next three elections on the ticket of RJD.

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 month of November of the same year.

Other four assembly constituencies in the Banka district are Dhoraiya, Banka, Katoria and Belhar.

Other assembly segments located in the Lok Sabha constituency of Banka are Dhoraiya, Banka, Katoria, Belhar and Sultanganj.

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