Constituency
73. Madhepura
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-MADHEPURA
RJD 49.5%won by 20.5%BJP 29.0%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 7.8% to 20.5%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 29.0% — it did not contest here in 2010.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.5% between them, down from 86.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,05,158
Turnout
60.2%
Valid votes
1,83,722
Margin
37,642
20.49%
Candidates
19 contested · winner RJD- 1CHANDRA SHEKHARRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD90,97449.5%
- 2VIJAY KUMAR BIMALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP53,33229.0%
- 3ASHOK KUMARJAPL · JAPL6,8333.7%
- 4JYOTI MANDALIndependent · IND4,3862.4%
- 5ALA UDINIndependent · IND3,6052.0%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,9071.6%
- 7VISHAL KUMARIndependent · IND2,8391.5%
- 8GANESH MANAVCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,5491.4%
- 9KAPILDEV PASWANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,3231.3%
- 10VINOD KUMARHCP · HCP2,2241.2%
- 11VIJENDRA YADAVJDR · JDR2,1771.2%
- 12MANISH KUMARBMUP · BMUP1,5160.8%
- 13MD. ALIIndependent · IND1,4640.8%
- 14DINESH YADAV URF PHOGIGJDS · GJDS1,4380.8%
- 15SURESH PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND1,2290.7%
- 16KAMESHWAR YADAVBJKD · BJKD1,1930.6%
- 17KAMAL KUMARSKLP · SKLP1,0720.6%
- 18OM PRAKASH BHARTIMANJP · MANJP8630.5%
- 19MD. TAHIRTNRMPI · TNRMPI7980.4%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- RJD
- RJD–BJP swing
- −26.8%
- RJD share
- 47.3% → 49.5%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 29.0%
- Turnout
- 59.4% → 60.2%