Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency

Bhagalpur
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Assembly constituencies	Bihpur Gopalpur Pirpainti Kahalgaon Bhagalpur Nathnagar
Established	1951
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Ajay Kumar Mandal
Party	Janata Dal (United)
Elected year	2019
Preceded by	Shailesh Kumar Mandal

Bhagalpur (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bhagalpur in Bihar state in eastern India.

Vidhan Sabha segments

Presently, Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:

#	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 lead
152	Bihpur	Bhagalpur	Kumar Shailendra		BJP		JD(U)
153	Gopalpur		Gopal Mandal		JD(U)		JDU)
154	Pirpainti		Lalan Kumar		BJP		JD(U)
155	Kahalgaon		Pawan Kumar Yadav		BJP		JD(U)
156	Bhagalpur		Ajeet Sharma		INC		INC
158	Nathnagar		Ali Ashraf Siddiqui		RJD		INC

Members of Lok Sabha

The following is the list of the Members of Parliament elected from this Lok Sabha constituency ^{[1] [2]}

Year	Name	Party
1952	Anoop Lal Mehta		Indian National Congress
	Kirai Mushahar		Socialist Party
1952^	J. B. Kripalani		Praja Socialist Party
	Kirai Mushahar
1957	Banarsi Prasad Jhunjhunwala		Indian National Congress
1962	Bhagwat Jha Azad
1967
1971
1977	Ramjee Singh		Janata Party
1980	Bhagwat Jha Azad		Indian National Congress
1984
1989	Chunchun Prasad Yadav		Janata Dal
1991
1996
1998	Prabhas Chandra Tiwari		Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Subodh Ray		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2004	Sushil Kumar Modi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2006^	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
2009
2014	Shailesh Kumar Mandal		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2019	Ajay Kumar Mandal		Janata Dal (United)
2024

^ by-poll

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Bhagalpur ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Ajay Kumar Mandal	536,031	50.38
	INC	Ajeet Sharma	431,163	40.52
	NOTA	None of the above	31803	2.99
Majority			104868	9.86
Turnout				53.50
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Bhagalpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Ajay Kumar Mandal	618,254	59.30
	RJD	Shailesh Kumar (Bulo Mandal)	3,40,624	32.67
	NOTA	None of the Above	31,567	3.03
	IND.	Nurullah	9,620	0.92
	BSP	Mohammad Ashiq Ibrahimi	9,572	0.92
Majority			2,77,630	26.63
Turnout			10,43,182	57.20	−0.60
	JD(U) gain from RJD		Swing

2014 election

2014 Indian general elections: Bhagalpur ^{[4] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Shailesh Kumar (Bulo Mandal)	3,67,623	37.74
	BJP	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	3,58,138	36.76
	JD(U)	Abu Qaiser	1,32,256	13.58
	IND	Ramjee Mandal	18,937	1.94
	IND	Indradeo Kumar Singh	12,710	1.30
	NOTA	None of the Above	11,875	1.22
Majority			9,485	0.98
Turnout			9,74,016	57.80
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing

1957 election

• Banarshi Prasad Jhunjhunwala (INC) : 93,315 votes
• Chhabinath Singh (CPI) : 43,876

See also

• Bhagalpur district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

1. "Election Commission of India" Archived January 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
2. "Lok Sabha Former Members" Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
3. Election Commission of India (4 June 2024). "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Bhagalpur". Archived from the original on 31 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
4. "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 70. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
5. "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

External links

• Bhagalpur lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

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