Singheshwar (SC) Assembly Election 2025: Check Polling Date, Result Date, List of Candidates; Know More About Vidhan Sabha Chunav (Image: Google AI Studio)
Singheshwar Election 2025: Singheshwar is the 72nd Assembly constituency in Bihar. Reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC), it falls under the Madhepura district and is part of the Supaul Lok Sabha constituency following the 2008 delimitation. Before that, it was part of the Madhepura parliamentary seat. The constituency was established in 1977. While the Janata Dal (United) held the seat for four consecutive terms from 2005, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) won it in 2020, ending the JD(U)'s streak. The region lies in the heart of the agriculturally dominant Kosi belt.
The polling in Singheshwar (SC) will be held on November 6, 2025, during the first phase of the Assembly Elections in Bihar. The counting of votes and the announcement of results for all constituencies will be done on November 14, 2025.
In the 2020 election, the seat was won by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate Chandrahas Chaupal. He secured 86,181 votes, for a vote share of 45.13%. Chaupal defeated the runner-up, Ramesh Rishidev of the Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)), by a margin of 5,573 votes. The JD(U) candidate received 80,608 votes.
The candidates announced for the 2025 election so far include:
The voting in Singheshwar (SC) is expected to be between 7:00 AM and 5:00 PM on the day of the polling, i.e., November 6, 2025, as the typical official window for a general constituency.
The Singheshwar (SC) constituency encompasses the Singheshwar, Shankarpur, and Kumarkhand community development blocks of the Madhepura district. The total projected population of the constituency in 2024 was 5,41,506.
The area is known for the revered Singheshwar Nath Mahadev Temple (Singheshwarsthan), which attracts pilgrims from Bihar and Nepal. The region is primarily agrarian, with the economy dependent on crops like paddy, maize, wheat, and lentils, but it is also prone to seasonal floods. Limited industrial development and agrarian distress contribute to seasonal migration.
Demographically, the electorate is considered diverse, with the Yadav community being the largest and most influential bloc, comprising approximately 25.30 % of the voters. The Scheduled Caste population, for which the seat is reserved, accounts for about 20.59% (or 63,938 voters as of 2020). Muslim voters constituted about 12 % of the electorate in 2020.
According to the 2020 Assembly election data, Singheshwar had 310,531 registered voters, which had risen to 329,079 for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Establishment of Singheshwar Constituency: Singheshwar Assembly constituency was established in 1977. It first went to the polls in the general election held in 1977. It was converted to a Scheduled Caste (SC) reserved seat after the 2008 delimitation exercise.
