Constituency
68. Barari
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-BARARI
RJD 43.1%won by 8.7%BJP 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 8.7%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 15.5% to 43.1% of the vote here (+27.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.6% of the vote between them, up from 65.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.6% to 69.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,37,054
Turnout
69.6%
Valid votes
1,64,998
Margin
14,336
8.69%
Candidates
16 contested · winner RJD- 1NEERAJ KUMARRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD71,17543.1%
- 2BIBHASH CHANDRA CHOUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP56,83934.4%
- 3MUHAMMAD SHAKURNationalist Congress Party · NCP11,0026.7%
- 4KAILASH SAHANIIndependent · IND8,4845.1%
- 5MUHAMMAD ISRAILIndependent · IND3,5972.2%
- 6DINESH PRASAD YADAVCommunist Party of India · CPI2,4061.5%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,3441.4%
- 8YUGAL KISHOR SAHIndependent · IND2,0781.3%
- 9SUBHASH SINGHJDR · JDR1,4190.9%
- 10PREM NATH JAISWALIndependent · IND1,3710.8%
- 11GOKUL YADAVIndependent · IND1,0200.6%
- 12ARUN KUMARMVM · MVM8100.5%
- 13LAKSHMI KANT MANDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7940.5%
- 14PRADIP K. YADAVGJDS · GJDS6060.4%
- 15RAMCHANDRA SINGH NISHADBMUP · BMUP5500.3%
- 16JAHANGIRIndian Union Muslim League · IUML5030.3%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–BJP swing
- +35.7%
- RJD share
- 15.5% → 43.1%
- BJP share
- 42.5% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- 66.0% → 69.6%