The forthcoming 2017 election to the Bansgaon assembly seat will witness triangular contest among BJP, SP and BSP. The Congress will make the contest a four-cornered one. In 2014, the BJP candidate from Bansgaon Lok Sabha constituency, Kamlesh Paswan, had secured a lead of 19122 votes over his nearest BSP rival Sadal Prasad in the Bansgaon assembly segment.