Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency

Bhagalpur
Bhagalpur
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Assembly constituencies	Bihpur; Gopalpur; Pirpainti; Kahalgaon; Bhagalpur; Nathnagar;
Established	1951
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Ajay Kumar Mandal
Party	Janata Dal (United)
Elected year	2019
Preceded by	Shailesh Kumar Mandal

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

Vidhan Sabha segments

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

#	Name	District	Member
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	INC
158	Nathnagar		Ali Ashraf Siddiqui	RJD	INC

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

Year	Name
1952	Anoop Lal Mehta	Indian National Congress
1952	Kirai Mushahar	Socialist Party
1952^	J. B. Kripalani	Praja Socialist Party
1952^	Kirai Mushahar	Praja Socialist Party
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	Bhagwat Jha Azad	Indian National Congress
1989	Chunchun Prasad Yadav	Janata Dal
1991
1996
1998	Prabhas Chandra Tiwari	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Subodh Ray	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2004	Sushil Kumar Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
2006^	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
2009	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
2014	Shailesh Kumar Mandal	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2019	Ajay Kumar Mandal	Janata Dal (United)
2024	Ajay Kumar Mandal

^ by-poll

2024 Indian general elections: Bhagalpur^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Ajay Kumar Mandal	536,031	50.38
	INC	Ajeet Sharma	431,163	40.52
	NOTA	None of the above	31803	2.99
Majority			104868	9.86
Turnout				53.50
	JD(U) hold		Swing

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 Indian general elections: Bhagalpur^[4]^[5]
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

^ "Election Commission of India" Archived January 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Lok Sabha Former Members" Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
^ Election Commission of India (4 June 2024). "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Bhagalpur". Archived from the original on 31 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
^ "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.
^ "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2015.