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80. Benipur

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Bihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015

BR-BENIPUR

JDU 46.9%won by 17.8%BJP 29.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Janata Dal (United) (JDU), which now leads by 17.8%.

  • JDU vote shareJDU went from 0.0% to 46.9% of the vote here (+46.9%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.9% of the vote between them, up from 67.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout rose 8.4% to 55.6%.

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

Electorate
2,66,586
Turnout
55.6%
Valid votes
1,48,283
Margin
26,443
17.83%

Candidates

15 contested · winner JDU
  1. 1SUNIL CHOUDHARYJanata Dal (United) · JDU69,51146.9%
  2. 2GOPAL JEE THAKURBharatiya Janata Party · BJP43,06829.0%
  3. 3KAMALRAMVINOD JHA KAMAL SETHIndependent · IND10,1546.8%
  4. 4VINOD KUMAR JHAIndependent · IND6,0614.1%
  5. 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,6143.1%
  6. 6SIYALAKHAN YADAVIndependent · IND2,4591.7%
  7. 7SUNIL KUMAR JHA MOTI BABUIndependent · IND2,3401.6%
  8. 8RAM NARESH ROYCommunist Party of India · CPI2,2991.6%
  9. 9LAXMAN RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6851.1%
  10. 10VINODA NAND JHAIndependent · IND1,3850.9%
  11. 11KRISHNA KANT JHASKLP · SKLP1,3500.9%
  12. 12JITENDRA PASWANIndependent · IND1,2840.9%
  13. 13TARA KANT JHAIndependent · IND7960.5%
  14. 14BAIDYANATH YADAVGJDS · GJDS7780.5%
  15. 15NAVAL KISHOR SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP4990.3%

Since 2010

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
JDUflipped
JDU–BJP swing
+58.2%
JDU share
0.0% → 46.9%
BJP share
40.3% → 29.0%
Turnout
47.3% → 55.6%
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