Bhagalpur Assembly constituency

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Bhagalpur
Constituency No. 156 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
District Bhagalpur
Lok Sabha constituency Bhagalpur
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Rohit Pandey
Party  BJP
Alliance NDA
Elected year 2025

Bhagalpur is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a part of Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Gopalpur, Pirpainti, Kahalgaon, Bihpur and Nathnagar. [1] In the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Bhagalpur will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. [2] [3]

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Overview

Bhagalpur comprises Bhagalpur (Municipal Corporation) of Jagdishpur CD Block. [4]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearMemberParty
1952 Satendra Narain Agrawal Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967 Vijay Kumar Mitra Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969
1972
1977 Janata Party
1980 Shiv Chandra Jha Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Indian National Congress
1990 Vijay Kumar Mitra Bharatiya Janata Party
1995 Ashwini Kumar Choubey
2000
2005
2005
2010
2014^ Ajeet Sharma Indian National Congress
2015
2020
2025 Rohit Pandey Bhartiya Janata Party

^by-election

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bhagalpur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Rohit Pandey 100,519 51.11 Increase2.svg11.28
INC Ajeet Sharma 87,05844.28Increase2.svg3.76
JSP Abhay Kant Jha3,2511.65New
Independent Nisha Bharti1,2040.61New
NOTA None of the Above 1,9741.0Increase2.svg0.42
Majority 13,4746.83Increase2.svg6.14
Turnout 1,96,59657.15Increase2.svg8.72
BJP gain from INC Swing

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bhagalpur [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Ajeet Sharma 65,502 40.52 Decrease2.svg5.72
BJP Rohit Pandey64,38939.83Increase2.svg0.58
LJP Rajesh Verma20,52312.69
Independent Bijay Prasad Sah3,2922.04
RLSP Syed Shah Ali Sajjad Alam2,7431.7
NOTA None of the above 1,1030.68Decrease2.svg0.96
Majority 1,1130.69Decrease2.svg6.3
Turnout 161,67348.43Increase2.svg0.26
INC hold Swing


2015

2015 Bihar legislative assembly election: Bhagalpur [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Ajeet Sharma 70,514 46.24
BJP Arjit Shashwat Choubey59,85639.25
Independent Bijay Pd. Sah15,2129.97
NOTA None of the above 2,5001.64
Majority 10,6586.99
Turnout 152,51148.17
INC hold Swing


2014 bypoll

By-Election, 2014: Bhagalpur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Ajeet Sharma 63,753 55.50
BJP Nabhay Kumar Chaudhary46,52440.50
CPI Mukesh Kumar Das1,0260.89
SP Khursheed9700.84
NOTA None of the Above1,1871.03
Majority 17,22915.00
Turnout 1,14,85936.81
INC gain from BJP Swing


2010

2010 Bihar legislative assembly election: Bhagalpur [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Ashwini Kumar Choubey 49,164 42.03
INC Ajeet Sharma38,10432.57
LJP Dr. N. K. Yadav19,47916.65
BSP Shekhar Mehtar2,5352.17
Independent Jajweer Quasmi2,0071.72
Majority 11,0609.46
Turnout 1,16,98742.97
BJP hold Swing

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "36 Seats in Bihar to Have Electronic Voting Machines With Paper Trail Facility".
  3. ↑ "Poll-bound Bihar to get 36 EVMs with paper trail facility".
  4. ↑ "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  6. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2010" . Election Commission of India . Retrieved 11 February 2021.

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