Bhagalpur Assembly constituency

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 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Bhagalpur will be one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[2][3]

Bhagalpur
Constituency No. 156 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictBhagalpur
LS constituencyBhagalpur
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyINC
Elected year2020

Overview

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Name[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

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2020

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2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bhagalpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Ajeet Sharma 65,502 40.52
BJP Rohit Pandey 64,389 39.83
LJP Rajesh Verma 20,523 12.69
IND Bijay Prasad Sah 3,292 2.04
RLSP Syed Shah Ali Sajjad Alam 2,743 1.70
NOTA None of the Above 1,103 0.68
Majority 1,113
Turnout 1,61,673 48.17
INC hold Swing

2015

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2015 Bihar legislative assembly election: Bhagalpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Ajeet Sharma 70,514 47.00
BJP Arjit Shashwat Choubey 59,856 39.25
IND Bijay Prasad Sah 15,212 9.97
NOTA None of the Above 2,500 1.64
Majority 10,658 6.99
Turnout 1,52,511 48.17
INC hold Swing

2014 by-election

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By-Election, 2014: Bhagalpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Ajeet Sharma 63,753 55.50
BJP Nabhay Kumar Chaudhary 46,524 40.50
CPI Mukesh Kumar Das 1,026 0.89
SP Khursheed 970 0.84
NOTA None of the Above 1,187 1.03
Majority 17,229 15.00
Turnout 1,14,859 36.81
INC gain from BJP Swing

2010

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2010 Bihar legislative assembly election: Bhagalpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ashwini Kumar Choubey 49,164 42.03
INC Ajeet Sharma 38,104 32.57
LJP Dr. N. K. Yadav 19,479 16.65
BSP Shekhar Mehtar 2,535 2.17
Independent Jajweer Quasmi 2,007 1.72
Majority 11,060 9.46
Turnout 1,16,987 42.97
BJP hold Swing

See also

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Sources

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References

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  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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