Election
Constituency

48. Forbesganj

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Bihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015

BR-FORBESGANJ

BJP 46.2%won by 13.6%RJD 32.6%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.6% to 13.6%.

  • New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 32.6% — it did not contest here in 2010.
  • TurnoutTurnout rose 2.4% to 62.0%.

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

Electorate
2,99,961
Turnout
62.0%
Valid votes
1,85,936
Margin
25,238
13.57%

Candidates

13 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1VIDYA SAGAR KESHRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP85,92946.2%
  2. 2KRITYANAND BISWASRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD60,69132.6%
  3. 3ZAKIR HUSSAIN KHANJAPL · JAPL18,89410.2%
  4. 4LAXMI NARAYAN MEHTABahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,2622.3%
  5. 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,4281.8%
  6. 6RAJA RAMAN BHASKARIndependent · IND3,2591.8%
  7. 7ASHOK MISHRANationalist Congress Party · NCP2,3041.2%
  8. 8SATYA NARAYAN WRITERIndependent · IND1,9171.0%
  9. 9SUBHASH CHAND JHAAKBMP · AKBMP1,2760.7%
  10. 10MANJULA DEVIIndependent · IND1,2670.7%
  11. 11GAYATRI DEVIIndependent · IND1,1880.6%
  12. 12NOORULLAHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL9520.5%
  13. 13MANOJ SADABVM · BVM5690.3%

Since 2010

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–RJD swing
−35.4%
BJP share
48.9% → 46.2%
RJD share
0.0% → 32.6%
Turnout
59.6% → 62.0%
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