Bhagalpur Assembly constituency

Assembly constituency in Bihar

Bhagalpur
Constituency No. 156 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Bhagalpur
LS constituency	Bhagalpur
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ajeet Sharma
Party	INC
Elected year	2020

Bhagalpur Assembly constituency 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]

Overview

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[5]
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	Shiv Chandra Jha	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

^by-election

Election results

2020

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

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

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

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

Sources

Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1951
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1957
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1962
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1967
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1969
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1972
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1977
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1980
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1985
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1990
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 1995
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 2000
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 2005
Bihar Assembly Election Results in 2010

References

^ "Bhagalpur Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
^ "36 Seats in Bihar to Have Electronic Voting Machines With Paper Trail Facility".
^ "Poll-bound Bihar to get 36 EVMs with paper trail facility".
^ "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.
^ "Bhagalpur Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.