Constituency
8. Bettiah
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-BETTIAH
INC 45.3%won by 1.6%BJP 43.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 11.8% to 45.3% of the vote here (+33.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.9% of the vote between them, up from 52.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.0% to 59.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,49,093
Turnout
59.2%
Valid votes
1,47,563
Margin
2,320
1.57%
Candidates
17 contested · winner INC- 1MADAN MOHAN TIWARIIndian National Congress · INC66,78645.3%
- 2RENU DEVIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP64,46643.7%
- 3SAMEER HASANIndependent · IND2,8511.9%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,9181.3%
- 5MOHAMMAD SAIDULLAHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,6281.1%
- 6LAKSHMI RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5531.1%
- 7PUNYDEO PRASADIndependent · IND1,3550.9%
- 8RAMESH CHANDRA SINHAShiv Sena · SHS1,3480.9%
- 9SHAMBHU PRASAD GUPTASamajwadi Party · SP1,2370.8%
- 10POONAM SINGH ALIAS POONAM SINGH PATELIndependent · IND1,1780.8%
- 11AMAR KUMAR KUSHAWAHAIndependent · IND7170.5%
- 12ARUN YADAVJAPL · JAPL6510.4%
- 13SHRIKANTI DEVIRAJPA · RAJPA5900.4%
- 14RIZWANULLAHJDR · JDR4300.3%
- 15MOHAMMAD FIROJGJDS · GJDS3280.2%
- 16ARUN KUMAR SRIVASTAVASKLP · SKLP3120.2%
- 17KEDAR PRASADNJPI · NJPI2150.1%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +29.4%
- INC share
- 11.8% → 45.3%
- BJP share
- 39.6% → 43.7%
- Turnout
- 55.3% → 59.2%