Constituency
118. Chapra
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-CHAPRA
BJP 45.3%won by 7.2%RJD 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.4% to 7.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.4% of the vote between them, up from 75.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.0% to 51.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,05,079
Turnout
51.9%
Valid votes
1,58,247
Margin
11,379
7.19%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1DR. C.N. GUPTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP71,64645.3%
- 2RANDHIR KUMAR SINGHRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD60,26738.1%
- 3UDIT RAIIndependent · IND5,7073.6%
- 4KANHAIYA SINGHIndependent · IND5,1763.3%
- 5SUBHASH RAIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,9692.5%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,4882.2%
- 7SANTOSH KUMAR MISHRAIndependent · IND2,8371.8%
- 8VINOD KUMAR TIWARYIndependent · IND1,0920.7%
- 9RAJNARAYAN GUPTAAAHPTY · AAHPTY7720.5%
- 10KAUSHAL KISHOR SINGHIndependent · IND6590.4%
- 11LALAN PRASADIndependent · IND6210.4%
- 12RAMJEE SINGHIndependent · IND5720.4%
- 13RAM NATH RAIIndependent · IND5580.4%
- 14PARMESHWAR KUMARIndependent · IND5040.3%
- 15MANAUAR HUSSAINBMF · BMF3790.2%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–RJD swing
- −24.2%
- BJP share
- 53.4% → 45.3%
- RJD share
- 22.0% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- 44.9% → 51.9%