Constituency
129. Forbesganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1995
BR-FORBESGANJ
BJP 16.6%won by 3.9%IND 12.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.0% to 3.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Multi-cornered9 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,21,803
Margin
4,804
3.94%
Candidates
33 contested · winner BJP- 1MAYANAND THAKURBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,16316.6%
- 2LAXMI MAHETAIndependent · IND15,35912.6%
- 3AHAD HUSAINSamajwadi Party · SP12,98410.7%
- 4SITAL PRASAD GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC9,9528.2%
- 5SAGIRUDDINIndependent · IND9,6047.9%
- 6BHAGWAN YADAVIndependent · IND8,8577.3%
- 7SHAMBHU NATH MISHRAIndependent · IND7,9166.5%
- 8MANOJ SADAIndependent · IND6,7405.5%
- 9TAHIR ANSARIIndependent · IND6,3505.2%
- 10PUNYANAND BHAGATCommunist Party of India · CPI4,7743.9%
- 11ANANT KUMAR RAISamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP3,7493.1%
- 12PADAM PARAG RAI RENU PATELBhartiya Panchsheel Party · BPP3,2132.6%
- 13SHIV SHANKAR THAKURSJPR · SJPR1,8491.5%
- 14RAM SAGAR RAIIndependent · IND1,2921.1%
- 15AMAR NATH VISHWASIndependent · IND1,0210.8%
- 16YOGANAND JHAIndependent · IND1,0060.8%
- 17NARESH PRASADIndependent · IND8190.7%
- 18ARVIND YADAVIndependent · IND7820.6%
- 19RAM KUMAR BHAGATIndependent · IND6740.6%
- 20ARVIND KUMAR MANDALIndependent · IND5070.4%
- 21KIRAN RISHIDEVIndependent · IND4960.4%
- 22MUKTI NATH BAHARDARIndependent · IND4170.3%
- 23SITARAM RAMIndependent · IND4150.3%
- 24RAJESH KUMAR RANJANIndependent · IND3800.3%
- 25ASHOK KUMAR MANDALShiv Sena · SHS3580.3%
- 26MAHESHWAR PRASAD MANDALIndependent · IND3570.3%
- 27BHAGWAN CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND3540.3%
- 28SATYA NARAYAN WRITERIndependent · IND3480.3%
- 29LATU PASWANIndependent · IND3030.2%
- 30KULANAND MEHTAIndependent · IND2510.2%
- 31LAL BABUIndependent · IND2280.2%
- 32KUNDAN THAKURIndependent · IND1500.1%
- 33KUVERMAL BODHRAIndependent · IND1350.1%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- −2.7%
- BJP share
- 16.5% → 16.6%
- IND share
- 9.9% → 12.6%
- Turnout
- — → —