Constituency
164. Tarapur
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-TARAPUR
JDU 43.6%won by 7.8%HAMS 35.8%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal (United) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.6% to 7.8%.
- New challengerHindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) (HAMS) finished second with 35.8% — it did not contest here in 2010.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.4% of the vote between them, up from 63.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.3% to 52.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,89,179
Turnout
52.6%
Valid votes
1,52,249
Margin
11,947
7.85%
Candidates
14 contested · winner JDU- 1M L CHOUDHARYJanata Dal (United) · JDU66,41143.6%
- 2SAKUNI CHOUDHARYHindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) · HAMS54,46435.8%
- 3None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA5,5653.7%
- 4SANJAY KUMARJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM5,0173.3%
- 5KARMVIR KUMAR BHARATIIndependent · IND3,9712.6%
- 6ANIL KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND2,7971.8%
- 7GOPAL KRISHNA BARMAShiv Sena · SHS2,4941.6%
- 8SAGAR SUMAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI2,4111.6%
- 9VIJAY KUMAR SINGHRSMD · RSMD2,3711.6%
- 10RAM PRASAD SAHAAHPTY · AAHPTY1,8091.2%
- 11ANITA DEVIJAPL · JAPL1,5671.0%
- 12KRISHNADEO SAHSUCI · SUCI1,2780.8%
- 13AMARESHWAR KUMARIndependent · IND1,1450.8%
- 14SITA RAM DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9490.6%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- JDU
- Winner now
- JDU
- JDU–HAMS swing
- −29.6%
- JDU share
- 37.4% → 43.6%
- HAMS share
- 0.0% → 35.8%
- Turnout
- 47.4% → 52.6%