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
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 Varsha Rani
Party	RJD
Elected year	2020

Overview

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Bihpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kumar Shailendra	72,938
	RJD	Shailesh Kumar Mandal	66,809
	JD(U)
Majority			6,129
Turnout
Registered electors				[4]
	gain from		Swing

2015

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