Gurua Bihar Election 2025
Situated in the Tekari subdivision of Bihar’s Gaya district, Gurua is one of 24 administrative blocks in the region. Once linked to the Magadh Empire, it shares proximity with historic sites like Gaya and Bodh Gaya. Despite its ancient ties, much about its history is unclear. Even its name’s origin is uncertain, with some suggesting it may have been associated with a spiritual teacher or a monastic learning center. The suffix ‘a’ in names is typical in Bihar’s dialect, which could explain how an unknown ‘Guru’ became ‘Gurua’.
Gurua has its election day on Tuesday, 11 November 2025.
Counting of votes will take place on November 14, 2025, followed by the declaration of results on the same day.
In the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate Vinay Kumar won from the Gurua constituency. He defeated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rajiv Nandan by a margin of 6,599 votes.
The total voter turnout in the Gurua assembly constituency was approximately 62.54%.
|
Candidate Name |
Party |
| Vinay Kumar | Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) |
| Upendra Prasad (Upendra Dangi) | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |
| Raghvendra Narayan Yadav | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) |
| Sanjeeva Shyam Singh | Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) |
| Nitish Kumar | Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party |
| Anil Singh | Yuva Samriddhi Dal |
| Gautam Kumar | Swaraj Party (Loktantrik) |
| Dharmendra Narayan | Rashtriya Jantantrik Morcha |
| Syed Imran Nabi | Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) |
| Samta Kumar | Akhil Hind Forward Bloc (Krantikari) |
| Nagdev Paswan | Independent (IND) |
| Mahendra Kumar | Independent (IND) |
| Rajendra Kumar | Independent (IND) |
The population of the Gurua Block (Community Development Block), which encompasses the area of the assembly constituency, was 184,286 according to the 2011 Census.
More recent estimates for the Gurua Block project the population to be around 226,866 as of 2020. The entire population of Gurua Block is considered rural, as there were no formal towns within its boundaries at the time of the 2011 census.
The population of the main Gurua village itself was 8,054 in 2011.
For the 2025 Bihar Assembly election, there were a total of 283,989 registered voters in the Gurua Assembly constituency.
The gender breakdown of the electorate was:
In the most recent 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the number of electors had grown slightly to 291,144.
Gurua became an Assembly constituency in 1977 and is one of the six Assembly segments of the Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat. Over the years, it has become a battleground between the BJP and the RJD. From 2000 onwards, the RJD won three consecutive elections before the BJP claimed victory in 2010 and 2015. The RJD regained the seat in 2020.
The area itself has been an inhabited, rural region for centuries.
