Constituency
48. Forbesganj
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2010
BR-FORBESGANJ
BJP 48.9%won by 18.6%LJP 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 18.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2000 and 2010 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 13.9% to 48.9% of the vote here (+35.1%).
- New challengerLoktantrik Janshakti Party (LJP) finished second with 30.3% — it did not contest here in 2000.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.3% of the vote between them, up from 45.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,41,677
Turnout
59.6%
Valid votes
1,43,965
Margin
26,827
18.63%
Candidates
17 contested · winner BJP- 1PADAM PARAG ROY 'VENU'Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP70,46348.9%
- 2MAYA NAND THAKURLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP43,63630.3%
- 3PRAKASH CHAUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC8,1855.7%
- 4KAFIL AHMADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,3003.0%
- 5RAJA RAMAN BHASKARIndependent · IND2,5341.8%
- 6SURESH PASWANNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,3861.7%
- 7RAM KUMAR BHAGATIndependent · IND2,1451.5%
- 8SUBHASH CHAND JHAIndependent · IND1,9531.4%
- 9JITENDRA ROYIndependent · IND1,8851.3%
- 10SATYA NARAYAN WRITERMUL · MUL1,4541.0%
- 11NARESH KUMAR THAKURShiv Sena · SHS1,3791.0%
- 12SHYAM SUNDAR SHARMARKJP · RKJP7430.5%
- 13CHAMPA LAL MANDALCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6780.5%
- 14PRADEEP YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP6010.4%
- 15MANOJ SADABVM · BVM5740.4%
- 16MUKESH KUMAR SINGHLSSP · LSSP5550.4%
- 17LALIT KUMAR BISHWASJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4940.3%
Since 2000
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2000 and 2010. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–LJP swing
- +4.7%
- BJP share
- 13.9% → 48.9%
- LJP share
- 0.0% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- — → 59.6%