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37. Rajnagar

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Bihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015

BR-RAJNAGAR

BJP 46.2%won by 4.0%RJD 42.2%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.0%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 35.7% to 46.2% of the vote here (+10.5%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.4% of the vote between them, up from 73.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout rose 8.0% to 52.2%.

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

Electorate
2,96,751
Turnout
52.2%
Valid votes
1,54,905
Margin
6,242
4.03%

Candidates

12 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1RAM PRIT PASWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP71,61446.2%
  2. 2RAMAWATAR PASWANRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD65,37242.2%
  3. 3None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,4472.2%
  4. 4MAHESWAR RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6501.7%
  5. 5RAKESH KUMARIndependent · IND2,2711.5%
  6. 6VISHNATH PASWANIndependent · IND2,0291.3%
  7. 7UTIM PASWANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,9451.3%
  8. 8PAWAS KUMAR PASWANSamajwadi Party · SP1,3490.9%
  9. 9CHHEDI RAMIndependent · IND1,1810.8%
  10. 10RAM CHANDRA MANDALNationalist Justice Party · NJP1,0550.7%
  11. 11SIYARAM SADAYSJDD · SJDD1,0250.7%
  12. 12UMESH PASWANAKBMP · AKBMP9670.6%

Since 2010

Derived
Winner then
RJD
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–RJD swing
+6.3%
BJP share
35.7% → 46.2%
RJD share
38.0% → 42.2%
Turnout
44.2% → 52.2%
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