Bihpur Assembly constituency

Bihpur is one of 243 constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is a part of the Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency along with other assembly constituencies viz. Gopalpur, Pirpainti, Kahalgaon, Bhagalpur and Nathnagar.[1]

Bihpur
Constituency No. 152 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictBhagalpur
LS constituencyBhagalpur
Established1951
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Varsha Rani
PartyRJD
Elected year2020

Overview

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Bihpur comprises CD Blocks Narayanpur, Bihpur & Kharik.[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Year Name[3] Party
1952 Raghunandan Prasad Jha Indian National Congress
1957 Prabhu Narayan Roy Communist Party of India
1962 Sukdeo Choudhary Indian National Congress
1967 Gyaneshwar Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969 Prabhu Narayan Roy Communist Party of India
1972
1977 Sitaram Singh Azad
1980 Rajendra Prasad Sharma Indian National Congress
1985 Indian National Congress
1990 Brahmadeo Mandal Janata Party
1995 Janata Dal
2000 Shailesh Kumar Mandal Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005
2005
2010 Kumar Shailendra Bharatiya Janata Party
2015 Varsha Rani Rashtriya Janata Dal
2020 Kumar Shailendra Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

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2020

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Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Bihpur
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD
JD(U)
NOTA None of the Above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors [4]
gain from Swing

2015

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Bihar assembly elections, 2015: Bihpur[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Varsha Rani 68,963 48.39
BJP Kumar Shailendra 56,247 39.46
IND Lal Bahadur Singh 4,141 2.91
None of the Above None of the Above 3,565 2.50
Turnout 138,963 57.99
Registered electors 245,811

References

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  1. ^ "Bhagalpur Parliamentary Constituencies". elections.in. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Bihpur Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  4. ^ "Bihar Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  5. ^ Bihar Assembly Election 2015
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