Bihpur Assembly constituency

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Bihpur
Constituency No. 152 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
Varsha Rani
PartyRJD
Elected year 2020

Bihpur is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a part of the Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Gopalpur, Pirpainti, Kahalgaon, Bhagalpur and Nathnagar. [1]

Contents

Overview

Bihpur comprises CD Blocks Narayanpur, Bihpur & Kharik. [2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearName [3] Party
1952 Raghunandan Prasad Jha Indian National Congress
1957 Prabhu Narayan Roy Communist Party of India
1962 Sukdeo Choudhary Indian National Congress
1967 Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969 Prabhu Narayan Roy Communist Party of India
1972
1977 Sitaram Singh Azad
1980 Rajendra Prasad Sharma Indian National Congress
1985 Indian National Congress
1990 Brahmadeo Mandal Janata Party
1995 Janata Dal
2000 Shailesh Kumar Mandal Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2005
2010 Kumar Shailendra Bharatiya Janata Party
2015 Varsha Rani Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020 Kumar Shailendra Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Bihpur [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Kumar Shailendra 72,938 48.53 +9.07
RJD Shailesh Kumar Mandal66,80944.45−3.94
BSP Md. Haidar Ali3,5532.36
Independent Md. Sanovar1,3640.91
NOTA None of the above 2,7161.81−0.69
Majority 6,1294.08−4.85
Turnout 150,28958.05+0.07
BJP gain from RJD Swing


2015

Bihar assembly elections, 2015: Bihpur [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
RJD Varsha Rani 68,963 48.39
BJP Kumar Shailendra56,24739.46
Independent Lal Bahadur Singh4,1412.91
Independent Haidar Ali2,9832.09
JAP(L) Ajmery Khatun1,8741.31
NOTA None of the above 3,5652.5
Majority 12,7168.93
Turnout 142,52857.98


References

  1. "Bhagalpur Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  2. "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.
  3. 1 2 "Bihpur Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  4. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2015". Election Commission of India . 20 August 2018.