About Asthawan Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency
Asthawan is one of the 243 legislative assembly segments of Bihar. It is located in the Nalanda district. It is a part of the Nalanda Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency. Jitendra Kumar of JDU was elected the MLA from the Asthawan constituency in the 2015 assembly elections. He bagged a total of 58,908 votes and defeated LJP's Chhote Lal Yadav, who got 48,464 votes. Jitendra Kumar has won a total of four elections from Asthawan in the year 2005 (February and October), 2010, and 2015.
A total of 2,70,312 people in the Asthawan assembly constituency possess the right to vote, out of whom 1,44,925 are men and 1,25,380 are women. The vote share in the previous Bihar Assembly election was only 49.24 %. The next elections to the Bihar Assembly will be held in October-November 2020.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Asthawan Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Asthawan assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
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| 2015 | 171 | Asthawan | GEN | Jitendra Kumar | M | JD(U) | 51525 | Anil Kumar | M | RJD | 39925 |
| 2015 | 171 | Asthawan | GEN | Jitendra Kumar | M | JD(U) | 58908 | Chhote Lal Yadav | M | LJP | 48464 |
| 2010 | 171 | Asthawan | GEN | Jitendra Kumar | M | JD(U) | 54176 | Kapildev Prasad Singh | M | LJP | 34606 |
| OCT 2005 | 175 | Asthawan | GEN | Jitendra Kumar | M | JD(U) | 40474 | Dr. Puspanjay | M | IND | 24988 |
| FEB 2005 | 175 | Asthawan | GEN | Jitendra Kumar | M | JD(U) | 31387 | Dr. Kumar Pushpanjay | M | RJD | 28176 |
| 2001 | By Polls | Asthawan | GEN | Satish Kumar | M | SAP | 58999 | Kuamar Puspanjay | M | RJD | 48302 |
| 2000 | 193 | Asthawan | GEN | Raghunath Prasad Sharma | M | IND | 40175 | Satish Kumar | M | NCP | 26761 |
| 1995 | 193 | Asthawan | GEN | Satish Kumar | M | IND | 35161 | Pramod Narain Sinha | M | JD | 26967 |
| 1990 | 193 | Asthawan | GEN | Raghu Ntah Prasad Sharma | M | IND | 60031 | Vishnu Das Choudhary | M | JD | 22587 |
| 1985 | 193 | Asthawan | GEN | Raghunath Prasad | M | IND | 36472 | Ayodhya Prasad | M | INC | 30687 |
| 1980 | By Polls | Asthawan | GEN | A.Kr.Singh | M | IND | 36211 | A.Pd.Singh | M | CPI | 24106 |
| 1980 | 193 | Asthawan | GEN | Ayodhya Prasad | M | INC(I) | 51363 | Arjun Prasad Singh | M | CPI | 35010 |
| 1977 | 193 | Asthawan | GEN | Indradeo Chaudhary | M | IND | 40935 | Rama Sinha | F | JNP | 26372 |
| 1972 | 196 | Asthawan | GEN | Ayodhya Prasad | M | NCO | 18285 | And Kishore Pd. Singh | M | HSD | 16590 |
| 1969 | 196 | Asthawan | GEN | Nand Kishore Prasad Singh | M | JAP | 10636 | Bhagwati Devi | F | INC | 9681 |
| 1967 | 196 | Asthawan | GEN | B. P. Jawahar | M | INC | 19651 | N. K. P. Singh | M | IND | 10480 |
| 1962 | 193 | Asthawan | GEN | Kaushlendra Pd. Narayan Singh | M | PSP | 21749 | Shyam Narayan Singh | M | INC | 18340 |
| 1957 | 160 | Asthawan | GEN | Nand Kishore Pd. Singh | M | CNPSPJP | 13228 | Kaushalendra Prasad Narain Singh | M | PSP | 13210 |
| 1951 | 12 | Asthawan | GEN | Tajuddin | M | INC | 5602 | Har Sahay Mehta | M | IND | 4220 |
Last Updated on Aug 10, 2021