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

Overview

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Name	Party
1952[5]	Satendra Narain Agrawal		Indian National Congress
1957[6]
1962[7]
1967[8]	Vijay Kumar Mitra		Jana Sangh
1969[9]
1972[10]
1977[11]			Janata Party
1980[12]	Shiv Chandra Jha		Indian National Congress
1985[13]
1990	Vijay Kumar Mitra[14]		Bharatiya Janata Party
1995[15]	Ashwini Kumar Choubey
2000[16]
2005 (Feb)[17]
2005 (Oct)[17]
2010[18]
2014^	Ajeet Sharma		Indian National Congress
2015[19]
2020[20]

^by-election

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Bhagalpur^[20][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajeet Sharma	65,502	40.52	−5.72
	BJP	Rohit Pandey	64,389	39.83	+0.58
	LJP	Rajesh Verma	20,523	12.69
	Independent	Bijay Prasad Sah	3,292	2.04
	RLSP	Syed Shah Ali Sajjad Alam	2,743	1.7
	NOTA	None of the above	1,103	0.68	−0.96
Majority			1,113	0.69	−6.3
Turnout			161,673	48.43	+0.26
	INC hold		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar legislative assembly election: Bhagalpur^[19][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ajeet Sharma	70,514	46.24
	BJP	Arjit Shashwat Choubey	59,856	39.25
	Independent	Bijay Pd. Sah	15,212	9.97
	NOTA	None of the above	2,500	1.64
Majority			10,658	6.99
Turnout			152,511	48.17
	INC hold		Swing

2014 bypoll

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^[18][18]

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

• List of Assembly constituencies of Bihar