Constituency
62. Purnia
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-PURNIA
BJP 49.3%won by 17.6%INC 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.8% to 17.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.0% of the vote between them, up from 71.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.0% to 65.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,83,483
Turnout
65.9%
Valid votes
1,86,786
Margin
32,815
17.57%
Candidates
26 contested · winner BJP- 1VIJAY KUMAR KHEMKABharatiya Janata Party · BJP92,02049.3%
- 2INDU SINHAIndian National Congress · INC59,20531.7%
- 3RAM CHARITRA YADAVIndependent · IND7,6144.1%
- 4RAJEEV KUMAR SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,9932.1%
- 5ARVIND KUMAR@ BHOLA SAHJAPL · JAPL2,6701.4%
- 6ASHOK KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,6970.9%
- 7DIVAKAR CHOUDHARYNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,5390.8%
- 8RAJESH KUMAR NIRALAIndependent · IND1,4880.8%
- 9AHMAD HUSSAINIndependent · IND1,4800.8%
- 10RAKESH KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,4150.8%
- 11MASIUR RAHMANJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,3880.7%
- 12LT. COL. AKSHAY YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP1,3210.7%
- 13SUMITRA DEVI MANDALRVNP · RVNP1,2570.7%
- 14None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,1090.6%
- 15ADITYA KUMAR JHAIndependent · IND1,0890.6%
- 16ASHOK KUMAR MAHTOBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9960.5%
- 17MOHAMMAD ASLAM AZADIndependent · IND8730.5%
- 18DEEPAK KUMARIndependent · IND8410.5%
- 19AKHILESH VERMASKLP · SKLP7440.4%
- 20RASHI PRASADPBI · PBI7380.4%
- 21BINDU PRAKASH JHAIEMC · IEMC7250.4%
- 22RANJEET KUMAR SINGHIndian Union Muslim League · IUML7080.4%
- 23RAKESH KUMARIndependent · IND6790.4%
- 24BACHCHI SHARMADSP · DSP4090.2%
- 25MANIK CHAND YADAVIndependent · IND4060.2%
- 26KASHOR KUMAR YADAVAIFBS · AIFBS3820.2%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +5.7%
- BJP share
- 41.4% → 49.3%
- INC share
- 29.6% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- 60.9% → 65.9%