Bihpur Vidhan Sabha seat lies in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar. It falls under the Bhagalpur Parliamentary constituency of the state. The Bihpur constituency has mostly been an RJD dominated seat for about 20 years. But BJP's Kumar Shailendra won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for the Bihpur election took place in the second phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 3. The counting of votes took place on November 10.

Polling for Bihar Vidha Sabha polls took place in three phases. While the first phase voting took place on October 28, polling for the second and third phases took place on November 3 and 7 respectively. Bihar Assembly Election results 2020 were declared for all phases on November 10.

In the 2015 Bihar elections, RJD's Varsha Rani had won the Bihpur seat, defeating BJP's Kumar Shailendra. The candidates in fray from this seat in the 2020 polls included Shailesh Kumar of the RJD, Kumar Shailendra of the BJP and Md Haidar Ali of the BSP among others.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 were the first major polls taking place in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Polling booths were equipped with thermal screening equipment and hand sanitisers and voting timings had been increased by one hour to ensure social distancing amid the pandemic. The NDA won the election with 125 seats.

2020 bihpur Assembly Election: Candidates' list

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Mahendra Singh ParchadhariIND781
Kumar Shailendra (Current MLA)BJP72938
Shailesh KumarRJD66809
Ajmeri KhatunJan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)531
Nidhi BhushanThe Plurals Party522
Md. Haidar AliBSP3553
Md. SanovarIND1364
Gautam Kumar PritamSocialist Party (India)1075

2015 bihpur Assembly Election Results

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Varsha Rani (Current MLA)RJD68963
Kumar ShailendraBJP56247

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