Bhagalpur Vidhan Sabha seat lies in the district with the same name Bihar. The Bhagalpur constituency falls under the Bhagalpur Lok Sabha seat. Congress's Ajit Sharma won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for Bhagalpur election took place in the second phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 3. Bihar election results were declared on November 10.

Voting for the Bihar Vidhan Sabha polls 2020 took place in three phases on October 28, November 3 and 7. The counting of votes for all phases took place on November 10. A total of 94 constituencies, including Bhagalpur, voted in the second phase on November 3.

Ajit Sharma of the Congress had won the 2015 Bihar polls on the Bhagalpur constituency, defeating Arjit Shashwat Choubey of the BJP. The candidates on the Bhagalpur seat for 2020 Bihar polls included Congress sitting MLA Ajit Sharma, Md Asif Ali of the NCP and Rajesh Verma of the LJP among others.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 were the first major polls in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. It is because of the pandemic that the polls had been brought down to three phases while voting timing had been increased by an hour. The NDA won the election with 125 seats.

2020 bhagalpur Assembly Election: Candidates' list

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
GAURAV TIWARIJai Maha Bharath Party86
SAHENDRA PRASAD SAHUBahujan Mukti Party813
AMIT ALOKThe Plurals Party719
SUBODH MANDALNational Tiger Party680
AJIT SHARMA (Current MLA)INC65502
ROHIT PANDEYBJP64389
MD. ASIF ALINCP498
BAJARANG BIHARI SHARMAIND339
BIJAY PRASAD SAHIND3292
VINAY YADAVBharatiya Jan Kranti Dal (Democratic)273
DAYARAM MANDALPrabal Bharat Party213
RAVI KUMAR SINGHSOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)206
NEELU DEVIBhartiya Dalit Party152
PASUNN LALAINTBhartiya Garibmazdoor Party,142
RAJESH VERMALJPNA
SYED SHAH ALI SAJJAD ALAMRLSPNA

2015 bhagalpur Assembly Election Results

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Ajeet Sharma (Current MLA)INC70514
Arjit Shashwat ChoubeyBJP59856

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