Constituency
161. Banka
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-BANKA
BJP 38.4%won by 2.7%RJD 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 2.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 25.0% to 38.4% of the vote here (+13.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.0% of the vote between them, up from 52.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.7% to 57.9%.
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Electorate
2,35,691
Turnout
57.9%
Valid votes
1,36,529
Margin
3,730
2.73%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1RAM NARAYAN MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP52,37938.4%
- 2ZAFRUL HODARashtriya Janata Dal · RJD48,64935.6%
- 3AJIT KUMAR SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP16,54812.1%
- 4MANOJ SINGHIndependent · IND5,1913.8%
- 5DIGAMBAR MANDALIndependent · IND4,0713.0%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,0042.2%
- 7MAKHAN YADAVIndependent · IND2,0181.5%
- 8RAJENDRA RAYIndependent · IND1,5791.2%
- 9UMAKANT YADAVBDLP · BDLP1,2400.9%
- 10RENU KUMARICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6790.5%
- 11ABDUL KADIRIndependent · IND5940.4%
- 12RAKESH RANJANGJDS · GJDS5770.4%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–RJD swing
- +5.0%
- BJP share
- 25.0% → 38.4%
- RJD share
- 27.2% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- 52.3% → 57.9%