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 |
| Established | 1951 |
| Reservation | None |
| 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]
Overview
[edit]Bhagalpur comprises Bhagalpur (Municipal Corporation) of Jagdishpur CD Block.[4]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit]| 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
[edit]2020
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]Sources
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "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.
External links
[edit]- "Results of all Bihar Assembly elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 March 2022.