Constituency
144. Matihani
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-MATIHANI
JDU 49.0%won by 12.4%BJP 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal (United) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.0% to 12.4%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 36.5% — it did not contest here in 2010.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.5% of the vote between them, up from 65.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.1% to 59.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,05,043
Turnout
59.8%
Valid votes
1,82,354
Margin
22,688
12.44%
Candidates
10 contested · winner JDU- 1NARENDRA KUMAR SINGH ALIAS BOGO SINGHJanata Dal (United) · JDU89,29749.0%
- 2SARVESH KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP66,60936.5%
- 3SHOBHA DEVICommunist Party of India · CPI11,2326.2%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA7,0673.9%
- 5PRAVIN KUMARIndependent · IND2,3111.3%
- 6RANBIR KUMAR SALESHBMUP · BMUP1,2970.7%
- 7RAM PADARATH YADAVBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2760.7%
- 8SUSHIL KUMARAKBMP · AKBMP1,2070.7%
- 9MD SHAMIM AKTHARIndependent · IND1,1800.6%
- 10MUKESH KUMARIndependent · IND8780.5%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- JDU
- Winner now
- JDU
- JDU–BJP swing
- −28.1%
- JDU share
- 40.5% → 49.0%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- 57.7% → 59.8%