Alinagar Assembly Election 2025: Constituency profile, past winners and party-wise candidates

Maithili Thakur is the BJP's youngest new candidate for the Bihar election

Alinagar, a key legislative assembly constituency in Bihar’s Darbhanga district, is set to witness a direct contest between two generations.

The seat will go to polls in the first phase of Bihar election on November 6 along with 120 other constituencies.

Alinagar lies approximately 38 km east of Darbhanga town, the district headquarters, and about 145 km north of Patna. It has been historically dominated by Brahmin, Yadav and Muslim voters. Alinagar is a general category Assembly constituency which forms part of the Darbhanga Lok Sabha seat and comprises the Alinagar, Tardih, Ghanshyampur community development blocks and Motipur panchayat.

Alinagar had 275,559 registered voters in the 2020 Assembly elections.

According to reports, Alinagar faces recurring challenges of seasonal flooding and poor road connectivity.

Who are the key contenders?

The BJP’s surprise pick folk singer Maithili Thakur (25) is up against RJD candidate Binod Mishra (63). Jan Suraaj Party candidate Biplaw Kumar Chowdhary is also contesting from the Alinagar seat.

According to reports, the BJP candidate’s meetings are drawing huge crowds with Maithili singing devotional songs. She recently released her new album, “Chhath Ki Mahima”. “Alinagar will become Sitanagar if I win the election from the seat,” the 25-year-old BJP candidate told people during her election campaign.

Past election results

VSIP’s Mishri Lal Yadav is the sitting MLA from the Alinagar seat. In 2020, he registered a win in the Alinagar constituency defeating RJD’s Vinod Mishra by a narrow margin of 3,101 votes.  In the 2015 elections, RJD’s Abdul Siddiqui had defeated Mishri Lal Yadav, who then contested on a BJP ticket, by 13,460 votes.

According to reports, in 2020, 1,58,159 voters turned out to vote, comprising 57.4% of the total electorate in the constituency. However, following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state, the constituency has an updated electoral roll.

In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, BJP’s Gopal Jee Thakur, contesting from the Darbhanga parliamentary seat, led in the Alinagar Assembly segment by a margin of 9,842 votes over his RJD rival Lalit Kumar Yadav.

2025 Alinagar election result date

The Election Commission has set November 14 as the date of results for the Alinagar constituency.