Muzaffarpur Assembly constituency

Muzaffarpur is an assembly constituency in Muzaffarpur district in the Indian state of Bihar. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Muzaffarpur was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[1][2]

Muzaffarpur
Constituency No. 94 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Muzaffarpur
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bijendra Chaudhary
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2020

Extent

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 94 Muzaffarpur Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Muzaffarpur municipal corporation and Bhagwanpur, Madhubani, Majhauli Khetal and Patahi gram panchayats of Musahari community development block.^[3]

Muzaffarpur Assembly constituency is part of No. 15 Muzaffarpur (Lok Sabha constituency).^[3]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name[4]	Party
1957	Mahamaya Prasad Sinha		Praja Socialist Party
1962	Devnandan Sahay		Indian National Congress
1967	M. L. Gupta
1969	Ramdev Sharma		Communist Party of India
1972
1977	Manjay Lal		Janata Party
1980	Raghunath Pandey		Indian National Congress
1985
1990
1995	Bijendra Chaudhary		Janata Dal
2000			Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005			Independent politician
2005
2010	Suresh Kumar Sharma		Bharatiya Janata Party
2015
2020	Bijendra Chaudhary		Indian National Congress

Election results

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Muzaffarpur^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Bijendra Chaudhary	81,871	48.16
	BJP	Suresh Kumar Sharma	75,545	44.44	−10.69
	The Plurals Party	Pallavi Sinha	3,522	2.07
	Jantantrik Vikas Party	Ram Babu Sah	1,552	0.91
	NOTA	None of the above	1,245	0.73	+0.27
Majority			6,326	3.72	−13.43
Turnout			170,011	52.71	−5.48
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

2015

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Muzaffarpur^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Kumar Sharma	95,594	55.13
	JD(U)	Bijendra Chaudhary	65,855	37.98
	SP	Sayed Majid Hussain	1,719	0.99
	NOTA	None of the above	800	0.46
Majority			29,739	17.15
Turnout			173,389	58.19