Constituency
83. Darbhanga
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-DARBHANGA
BJP 47.7%won by 4.6%RJD 43.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.2% to 4.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.7% of the vote between them, up from 84.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.6% to 57.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,82,595
Turnout
57.8%
Valid votes
1,63,187
Margin
7,460
4.57%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1SANJAY SARAOGIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP77,77647.7%
- 2OM PRAKASH KHERIARashtriya Janata Dal · RJD70,31643.1%
- 3JAGADISH SAHIndependent · IND3,6092.2%
- 4NILAM DEVI URF NILAM DUTTAIndependent · IND3,1061.9%
- 5AVINASH KUMAR THAKURCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,2231.4%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,2160.7%
- 7DURGANAND MAHAVIR NAYAKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0000.6%
- 8NIKHIL KUMAR JHAIndependent · IND9010.6%
- 9MD. IRSHAD HUSSAINNJPI · NJPI7340.4%
- 10AMEENA KHATOONNationalist Congress Party · NCP5170.3%
- 11KUMAR KRISHNA KANHAIYAIndependent · IND4580.3%
- 12BHARAT YADAVIndependent · IND4570.3%
- 13MD.VASIM AHMADSamajwadi Party · SP2770.2%
- 14VIJAY SHREE PRASADRPIA · RPIA2440.1%
- 15MAHENDRA LAL DASBJND · BJND1800.1%
- 16KUMAR ANAND MOHANLAD · LAD1730.1%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–RJD swing
- −18.7%
- BJP share
- 54.1% → 47.7%
- RJD share
- 30.8% → 43.1%
- Turnout
- 52.1% → 57.8%