Constituency
23. Riga
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-RIGA
INC 49.0%won by 14.1%BJP 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 21.6% to 49.0% of the vote here (+27.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.8% of the vote between them, up from 61.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.2% to 57.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,82,472
Turnout
57.3%
Valid votes
1,61,768
Margin
22,856
14.13%
Candidates
19 contested · winner INC- 1AMIT KUMARIndian National Congress · INC79,21749.0%
- 2MOTI LAL PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP56,36134.8%
- 3ATUL BIHARI MISHRACommunist Party of India · CPI4,2622.6%
- 4BRAJ MOHAN KUMARIndependent · IND3,3582.1%
- 5PRIYATAM PASWANIndependent · IND2,7431.7%
- 6UMESH SAHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6351.6%
- 7SADA BABU SINGHIndependent · IND2,6131.6%
- 8RAMBABU SAHNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,4880.9%
- 9DEVDHARI NISHADIndependent · IND1,3050.8%
- 10THAKUR CHANDAN KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,2400.8%
- 11None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,1050.7%
- 12RANDHIR KUMARIndependent · IND1,0090.6%
- 13TAJUDDIN HAIDAR KHANSamajwadi Party · SP9740.6%
- 14MD. ABBAS SEKHIndependent · IND7960.5%
- 15RAM NARESH SAHGJDS · GJDS6360.4%
- 16RAJAN KUMARRAVP · RAVP5700.4%
- 17GONAUR DASLSSP · LSSP5550.3%
- 18RAM VILAS BAITHAPBI · PBI5000.3%
- 19PREM RANJAN KUMAR SINGHBJHP · BJHP4010.2%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +32.4%
- INC share
- 21.6% → 49.0%
- BJP share
- 39.9% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- 53.1% → 57.3%