Bhagalpur Assembly constituency

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Bhagalpur Assembly constituency
Constituency No. - for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency Details
CountryIndia
StateBihar
Member of Legislative Assembly
Elected year2020

156 Bhagalpur
Constituency for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency Details
CountryIndia
StateBihar
DistrictBhagalpur
Established1952
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLAAjeet Sharma
PartyINC
AllianceUnited Progressive Alliance
Elected year2020

Bhagalpur Assembly constituency is one of 243 legislative assembly 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 Legislative Assembly

Election Name[5] Party
1952 Satendra Narain Agrawal Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967 Vijay Kumar Mitra Bharatiya 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
Feb 2005
Oct 2005
2010
2014 ^ Ajeet Sharma Indian National Congress
2015
2020

Election results

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: 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 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
Bye-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 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

Sources

References

  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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