Constituency
32. Benipatti
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2010
BR-BENIPATTI
BJP 31.9%won by 12.9%LJP 19.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (United) (JDU) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 12.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2000 and 2010 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 0.0% to 31.9% of the vote here (+31.9%).
- New challengerLoktantrik Janshakti Party (LJP) finished second with 19.0% — it did not contest here in 2000.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 50.9% between them, down from 60.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,33,957
Turnout
41.8%
Valid votes
97,668
Margin
12,642
12.94%
Candidates
21 contested · winner BJP- 1VINOD NARAIN JHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,19831.9%
- 2MAHESH CHANDRA SINGHLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP18,55619.0%
- 3BHAWANA JHA.Indian National Congress · INC13,33413.7%
- 4KRIPA NAND JHACommunist Party of India · CPI9,6939.9%
- 5SHIV SHANKAR YADAVIndependent · IND2,5582.6%
- 6SANJAY KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND2,4382.5%
- 7MOHD ZINNURIndependent · IND2,1812.2%
- 8CHANDRA KISHOR ROYBJKD · BJKD2,0212.1%
- 9MD. HABIBSJPR · SJPR1,8141.9%
- 10AJIT PASWANIndependent · IND1,6431.7%
- 11GANESH PANDEYIndependent · IND1,5691.6%
- 12MISHRI LAL YADAVBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,4361.5%
- 13ANURAG SAHNIIndependent · IND1,3911.4%
- 14KAMESHWAR YADAVAKBMP · AKBMP1,2971.3%
- 15MAHENDRA NARAYAN RAYNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,2071.2%
- 16MOHAMMAD ARSHAD HUSSAINJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,1831.2%
- 17RANDHIR THAKURIndependent · IND1,1761.2%
- 18RAM CHANDRA YADAVAKSVP · KSVP9411.0%
- 19BINOD YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP7600.8%
- 20LALIT YADAVBEPR · BEPR7420.8%
- 21RAM LAKHAN RAMIndependent · IND5300.5%
Since 2000
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2000 and 2010. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- JDU
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–LJP swing
- +12.9%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 31.9%
- LJP share
- 0.0% → 19.0%
- Turnout
- — → 41.8%