Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency

Bhagalpur (Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bhagalpur in Bihar state in eastern India.

Bhagalpur
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
Assembly constituencies
Established1951
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
PartyJanata Dal (United)
Elected year2019
Preceded byShailesh Kumar Mandal

Vidhan Sabha segments edit

Presently, Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:

# Name District Member Party 2019 lead
152 Bihpur Bhagalpur Kumar Shailendra BJP JDU
153 Gopalpur Gopal Mandal JDU JDU
154 Pirpainti (SC) Lalan Kumar BJP JDU
155 Kahalgaon Pawan Kumar Yadav BJP JDU
156 Bhagalpur Ajeet Sharma INC JDU
158 Nathnagar Ali Ashraf Siddiqui RJD JDU

Members of Lok Sabha edit

The following is the list of the Members of Parliament elected from this Lok Sabha constituency [1][2]

Year Name Party
1952 Anoop Lal Mehta Indian National Congress
Kirai Mushahar Socialist Party
1952^ J. B. Kripalani Praja Socialist Party
Kirai Mushahar
1957 Banarsi Prasad Jhunjhunwala Indian National Congress
1962 Bhagwat Jha Azad
1967
1971
1977 Ramjee Singh Janata Party
1980 Bhagwat Jha Azad Indian National Congress
1984
1989 Chunchun Prasad Yadav Janata Dal
1991
1996
1998 Prabhas Chandra Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party
1999 Subodh Ray Communist Party of India
2004 Sushil Kumar Modi Bharatiya Janata Party
2006^ Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
2009
2014 Shailesh Kumar Mandal Rashtriya Janata Dal
2019 Ajay Kumar Mandal Janata Dal (United)

^ by-poll

Election results edit

2024 edit

2024 Indian general elections: Bhagalpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Ajay Kumar Mandal
INC Ajeet Sharma
BSP Poonam Singh
NOTA None of the above

2019 edit

2019 Indian general elections: Bhagalpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Ajay Kumar Mandal 618,254 59.30
RJD Shailesh Kumar (Bulo Mandal) 3,40,624 32.67
NOTA None of the Above 31,567 3.03
IND. Nurullah 9,620 0.92
BSP Mohammad Ashiq Ibrahimi 9,572 0.92
Majority 2,77,630 26.63
Turnout 10,43,182 57.20 -0.60
JD(U) gain from RJD Swing

2014 election edit

2014 Indian general elections: Bhagalpur[3][4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Shailesh Kumar (Bulo Mandal) 3,67,623 37.74
BJP Syed Shahnawaz Hussain 3,58,138 36.76
JD(U) Abu Qaiser 1,32,256 13.58
IND Ramjee Mandal 18,937 1.94
IND Indradeo Kumar Singh 12,710 1.30
NOTA None of the Above 11,875 1.22
Majority 9,485 0.98
Turnout 9,74,016 57.80
RJD gain from BJP Swing

1957 election edit

  • Banarshi Prasad Jhunjhunwala (INC) : 93,315 votes
  • Chhabinath Singh (CPI) : 43,876

See also edit

Notes edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Election Commission of India" Archived January 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Lok Sabha Former Members" Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 70. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

External links edit

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