Constituency
78. Kusheshwar Asthan
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-KUSHESHWAR-ASTHAN
JDU 43.1%won by 17.1%LJP 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Janata Dal (United) (JDU), which now leads by 17.1%.
- JDU vote shareJDU went from 0.0% to 43.1% of the vote here (+43.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 69.1% of the vote between them, up from 57.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.5% to 51.1%.
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Electorate
2,27,293
Turnout
51.1%
Valid votes
1,16,236
Margin
19,850
17.08%
Candidates
12 contested · winner JDU- 1SHASHI BHUSAN HAZARIJanata Dal (United) · JDU50,06243.1%
- 2DHANANJAY KUMAR ALIAS MRINAL PASWANLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP30,21226.0%
- 3None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA7,1836.2%
- 4RAJENDRA PRASADCommunist Party of India · CPI5,7064.9%
- 5VINAY KUMARIndependent · IND4,6784.0%
- 6GANESH KUMAR ALIAS GANESH KUMAR PASWANIndependent · IND3,7333.2%
- 7KAMESHWAR RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,5703.1%
- 8SHYAM SUNDAR SARDARJAPL · JAPL2,8502.5%
- 9BHUPESH BHUWAN BHARTI ALIAS PAPPUPASWANIndependent · IND2,7722.4%
- 10RAJESH PASWANGJDS · GJDS2,1051.8%
- 11TURANTI SADASKLP · SKLP1,7791.5%
- 12LAL MOHAR SADABHNP · BHNP1,5861.4%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- JDUflipped
- JDU–LJP swing
- +42.6%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 43.1%
- LJP share
- 25.5% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- 45.6% → 51.1%