Ghosi Bihar Election 2025
The 2025 Bihar Assembly elections have already geared up as voters are up to decide on key issues such as infrastructure growth, job creation, school standards, healthcare access, and safe public order. With 243 seats up for grabs, every constituency matters — and political parties have already announced their candidate lists in earnest. A party or alliance must secure at least 122 seats to stake a claim to power in the state.
The Ghosi Assembly Election 2025 will be held on November 11, 2025.
Counting of votes will take place on November 14, 2025, followed by the declaration of results on the same day.
Ghosi’s political history is equally bland, likely influenced by the low literacy rate and poor economic conditions. Voters here tend to support candidates rather than parties, shifting allegiance from the extreme Left to the extreme Right, as well as Independents and centrist parties. A prime example is Jagdish Sharma, who won eight consecutive elections from Ghosi between 1977 and 2005, representing the Janata Party (1977), BJP (1980), Congress (1985, 1990, 1995), as an Independent twice, and finally the JD(U) in 2005. Sharma resigned as an MLA in 2009 after being elected to the Lok Sabha from Jehanabad on a JD(U) ticket. His Lok Sabha membership was terminated in 2013 when he was sentenced to four years in prison in the fodder scam case, along with RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav.
Jagdish Sharma’s political dominance in Ghosi did not end with his Lok Sabha election. His wife, Shanti Sharma, won the 2009 Assembly bypoll as an Independent, followed by their son Rahul Sharma securing victory in 2010 on a JD(U) ticket. The Yadav family held the Ghosi seat for 38 consecutive years, representing four separate parties. Their reign ended in 2015 when the JD(U) denied Rahul Sharma a ticket. He contested as a HAM candidate but lost by over 21,000 votes while his father was in jail. In 2020, the JD(U) fielded Rahul Sharma again after Jagdish Sharma’s release, but he lost by over 17,000 votes. Currently, Jagdish Sharma is associated with his fifth political party, serving as HAM’s vice president.
The voting will start at 7:00 AM and will conclude at 5:00 PM.
Ghosi is a development block in Jehanabad district of Bihar. It is a small, entirely rural block with a population of 108,130 as per the 2011 Census. The population density stands at 1,089 inhabitants per square kilometre. The literacy rate in Ghosi is 54.46 per cent, with male literacy at 63.65 per cent and female literacy at 44.64 per cent. The sex ratio is 935 females per 1,000 males.
Ghosi has a significant Scheduled Caste population, constituting approximately 19.93 per cent of the electorate, while Muslims make up only 4.3 per cent. With entirely rural voters, the constituency had 262,439 registered voters in 2020, of whom 58.11 per cent exercised their franchise. The number of voters increased slightly to 265,158 in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The block consists of around 53 villages. Most of these villages are small – 18 have fewer than 1,000 residents, while 28 have populations between 1,000 and 4,999. Only four villages can be considered large, with three having 5,000 to 9,999 inhabitants and just one crossing the 10,000 mark. There are 17,113 households in the block, averaging about six persons per household.
Ghosi became one of the six Assembly segments of Jehanabad Lok Sabha seat in 1951. Of the 17 elections held so far, Congress has won five times, Independents four times, JD(U) thrice, CPI twice, and the Janata Party, BJP, and CPI(ML)(L) once each. The CPI(ML)(L) won the seat in 2020 as part of the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan by a margin of 17,333 votes.
Here are the key administrative and historical milestones:
The town of Ghosi has existed for a very long time, but its modern administrative identity as an assembly constituency began in 1951, and as a block within Jehanabad district in 1986.
