Constituency
54. Kishanganj
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2010
BR-KISHANGANJ
INC 31.4%won by 0.2%BJP 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2000 and 2010 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.7% to 31.4% of the vote here (+30.6%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 2000.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.5% between them, down from 79.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,11,851
Turnout
58.5%
Valid votes
1,23,875
Margin
264
0.21%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1DR MOHAMMAD JAWAIDIndian National Congress · INC38,86731.4%
- 2SWEETY SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP38,60331.2%
- 3TASIR UDDINRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD22,07417.8%
- 4MOHAMMAD KALIM UDDINNationalist Congress Party · NCP8,2916.7%
- 5MOHAMMAD NISSAR ALAMJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM3,6873.0%
- 6ABUL KALAM AZADCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,6262.9%
- 7RAJU RANJANIndependent · IND1,8001.5%
- 8MOHAMMAD NOORUL HAQUEIndependent · IND1,4981.2%
- 9SANJAY KUMAR SRIVASTWASJPR · SJPR1,2991.0%
- 10MAHABIR CHAUHANJPS · JPS1,1981.0%
- 11DILIP KUMAR RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1590.9%
- 12CHOTE LAL MAHTOIndependent · IND1,1210.9%
- 13SAYED ASAD HASNAINSamajwadi Party · SP6520.5%
Since 2000
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2000 and 2010. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −0.5%
- INC share
- 0.7% → 31.4%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → 58.5%