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Kusheshwar Asthan Assembly constituency

constituency of the Bihar legislative assembly in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ6447923 ↗
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Kusheshwar Asthan is an assembly constituency in Darbhanga district in the Indian state of Bihar, headquartered in the town of Kusheshwar Asthan. It is reserved for Scheduled Castes.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 78 Kusheshwar Asthan Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Kusheshwar Asthan and Kusheshwar Asthan Purbi community development blocks; Uchhti, Afzala, Akbarpur Baink, Sonpur Paghari, Ganaura Tarwara, Ladaho, Pokhram North and Pokhram South of Biraul CD Block.

Kusheshwar Asthan Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 23 Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency (SC).

Member of legislative Assembly

^by-election

Election results

2025

2021 bypoll

2020

2015

2010

References

External links

"Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kusheshwar Asthan Assembly constituency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.