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7. Chanpatia

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Bihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015

BR-CHANPATIA

BJP 39.0%won by 0.3%JDU 38.7%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.1% to 0.3%.

  • New challengerJanata Dal (United) (JDU) finished second with 38.7% — it did not contest here in 2010.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.8% of the vote between them, up from 59.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout rose 8.0% to 63.8%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
2,46,103
Turnout
63.8%
Valid votes
1,57,027
Margin
464
0.30%

Candidates

11 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1PRAKASH RAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP61,30439.0%
  2. 2N. N. SAHIJanata Dal (United) · JDU60,84038.7%
  3. 3OM PRAKASH KRANTICommunist Party of India · CPI10,1366.5%
  4. 4MANISH KUMAR PRASADIndependent · IND6,4464.1%
  5. 5BASANT SINGHIndependent · IND5,2543.3%
  6. 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,5062.9%
  7. 7MOHAMMAD JAHANGIRBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,5461.6%
  8. 8MUKTI NATH UPADHYAYASamajwadi Party · SP2,5231.6%
  9. 9SHAMBHU SHARAN SINGHIndependent · IND1,3350.9%
  10. 10MUNNA SINGHIndependent · IND1,3070.8%
  11. 11LATIF MIYANGAAP · GAAP8300.5%

Since 2010

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–JDU swing
−40.1%
BJP share
40.4% → 39.0%
JDU share
0.0% → 38.7%
Turnout
55.8% → 63.8%
6. Nautan8. Bettiah
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