Constituency
8. Bettiah
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2010
BR-BETTIAH
BJP 39.6%won by 27.1%IND 12.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.9% to 27.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2000 and 2010 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 52.0% between them, down from 57.3% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,92,145
Turnout
55.3%
Valid votes
1,06,163
Margin
28,789
27.12%
Candidates
18 contested · winner BJP- 1RENU DEVIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP42,01039.6%
- 2ANIL KUMAR JHAIndependent · IND13,22112.5%
- 3MADAN MOHAN TIWARIIndian National Congress · INC12,49911.8%
- 4VIRVAL YADAVLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP11,51110.8%
- 5RAMASHANKAR PRASAD KUSHAWAHAIndependent · IND5,5805.3%
- 6SHAMBHU PRASAD GUPTAIndependent · IND3,7133.5%
- 7PARWEZ ALAMNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,9322.8%
- 8JAWAHAR GUPTAIndependent · IND2,3702.2%
- 9RANJIT GIRICommunist Party of India · CPI2,2032.1%
- 10RAJESH KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,7911.7%
- 11MD ALAMGIR AFTABIndependent · IND1,5511.5%
- 12PRAMOD SAHSJPR · SJPR1,2161.1%
- 13CHANDRIKA SAHNIJPS · JPS1,1781.1%
- 14MAHFUZ ALAMIndependent · IND1,1621.1%
- 15ISHTAKHAR HUSENIndependent · IND1,0921.0%
- 16VINDESHWARI SAHIndependent · IND9860.9%
- 17SURENDRA RAMIJP · IJP6780.6%
- 18SHYAM CHANDRA GUPTJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4700.4%
Since 2000
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2000 and 2010. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–IND swing
- +19.2%
- BJP share
- 32.6% → 39.6%
- IND share
- 24.7% → 12.5%
- Turnout
- — → 55.3%