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98. Sahebganj

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Bihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015

BR-SAHEBGANJ

RJD 43.7%won by 6.6%BJP 37.1%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Dal (United) (JDU) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 6.6%.

  • RJD vote shareRJD went from 34.5% to 43.7% of the vote here (+9.2%).
  • New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 37.1% — it did not contest here in 2010.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.7% of the vote between them, up from 73.0% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate
2,77,987
Turnout
58.2%
Valid votes
1,61,699
Margin
10,660
6.59%

Candidates

16 contested · winner RJD
  1. 1RAMVICHAR RAIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD70,58343.7%
  2. 2RAJU KUMAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP59,92337.1%
  3. 3AZIMULLAH ANSARIIndependent · IND6,7164.2%
  4. 4MADAN CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND6,6744.1%
  5. 5DILIP KUMARIndependent · IND3,7592.3%
  6. 6BASAWAN PRASAD BHAGATSamajwadi Party · SP2,2611.4%
  7. 7AKHILESHWAR PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,0341.3%
  8. 8AJAY SINGHIndependent · IND1,9751.2%
  9. 9None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,8491.1%
  10. 10KRISHNA KUMAR JAISWALRMGP · RMGP1,4860.9%
  11. 11MOHAMMAD NASIMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0920.7%
  12. 12DEVESH CHANDRASJDD · SJDD8660.5%
  13. 13VINAY KUMARShiv Sena · SHS8320.5%
  14. 14NAWAL KISHORE SINGHGJDS · GJDS5900.4%
  15. 15JAI CHAND SAHANISKLP · SKLP5490.3%
  16. 16PRAMOD KUMARBJND · BJND5100.3%

Since 2010

Derived
Winner then
JDU
Winner now
RJDflipped
RJD–BJP swing
−27.9%
RJD share
34.5% → 43.7%
BJP share
0.0% → 37.1%
Turnout
56.5% → 58.2%
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