Constituency
156. Bhagalpur
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-BHAGALPUR
INC 46.2%won by 7.0%BJP 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.6% to 46.2% of the vote here (+13.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.5% of the vote between them, up from 74.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.2% to 48.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,16,636
Turnout
48.2%
Valid votes
1,52,511
Margin
10,658
6.99%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1AJEET SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC70,51446.2%
- 2ARJIT SHASHWAT CHOUBEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP59,85639.2%
- 3BIJAY PD. SAHIndependent · IND15,21210.0%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,5001.6%
- 5MD SHAHAB ALAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9540.6%
- 6RAVISHANKAR SINGHPBI · PBI8100.5%
- 7SYED BASHAR ALICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6120.4%
- 8OM BHASKERIndependent · IND5790.4%
- 9ARUNA DEVINTP · NTP4920.3%
- 10MUNSHI DASIndependent · IND4790.3%
- 11DAYARAM MANDALBMUP · BMUP2680.2%
- 12GOPAL BHARTISamajwadi Party · SP2350.2%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +16.4%
- INC share
- 32.6% → 46.2%
- BJP share
- 42.0% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- 43.0% → 48.2%