 In 1962, Chandra Shekhar Singh won from Barauni seat as the first Left party member to the state legislative assembly.Since then Teghra has been bastion of CPI till 2010 when it was defeated.In the 2010 state assembly elections, Lalan Kunwar of Bharatiya Janata Party won the newly constituted Teghra seat defeating his nearest rival Ram Ratan Singh of CPI.