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
LS constituency Bhagalpur
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party INC
Elected year 2020

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

YearName [5] Party
1952 Satendra Narain Agrawal Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967 Vijay Kumar Mitra Jana Sangh
1969
1972
1977 Janata Party
1980 Shiv Chandra Jha Indian National Congress
1985
1990 Vijay Kumar Mitra Bharatiya Janata Party
1995 Ashwini Kumar Choubey
2000
2005
2005
2010
2014^ Ajeet Sharma Indian National Congress
2015
2020

^by-election

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bhagalpur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Ajeet Sharma 65,502 40.52
BJP Rohit Pandey64,38939.83
LJP Rajesh Verma20,52312.69
IND Bijay Prasad Sah3,2922.04
RLSP Syed Shah Ali Sajjad Alam2,7431.70
NOTA None of the Above1,1030.68
Majority1,113
Turnout 1,61,67348.17
INC hold Swing

2015

2015 Bihar legislative assembly election: Bhagalpur
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Ajeet Sharma 70,514 47.00
BJP Arjit Shashwat Choubey59,85639.25
IND Bijay Prasad Sah15,2129.97
NOTA None of the Above2,5001.64
Majority10,6586.99
Turnout 1,52,51148.17
INC hold Swing

2014 by-election

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
Majority17,22915.00
Turnout 1,14,85936.81
INC gain from BJP Swing

2010

2010 Bihar legislative assembly election: Bhagalpur
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
Majority11,0609.46
Turnout 1,16,98742.97
BJP hold Swing

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References

  1. ↑ "Bhagalpur Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  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. ↑ "Bhagalpur Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.

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