Constituency
206. Chainpur
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015
BR-CHAINPUR
BJP 33.2%won by 0.4%BSP 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.6% to 0.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 65.9% of the vote between them, up from 55.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 671 votes (0.38%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,88,540
Turnout
61.6%
Valid votes
1,77,671
Margin
671
0.38%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1BRIJ KISHOR BINDBharatiya Janata Party · BJP58,91333.2%
- 2MOHAMMAD ZAMA KHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP58,24232.8%
- 3MAHABALI SINGHJanata Dal (United) · JDU30,28717.0%
- 4ALOK KUMAR SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP12,8027.2%
- 5PARMESHWAR SINGHShiv Sena · SHS3,4081.9%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,0741.7%
- 7RANGLAL PASWANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,5731.4%
- 8PRAHALAD BINDIndependent · IND1,8011.0%
- 9SURYA KANT PRASADIndependent · IND1,3160.7%
- 10AMARENDRA PRATAP SINGHIndependent · IND1,2520.7%
- 11RAM KRISHNA KHARWAR ALIS R.K. SINGHSuheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party · SBSP9020.5%
- 12PRABHU NARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND9000.5%
- 13SHRAWAN BINDIndependent · IND8550.5%
- 14TRIPURARI TIWARIATBP · ATBP8340.5%
- 15DEENDAYAL SINGH KUSHWAHAIndependent · IND5120.3%
Since 2010
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–BSP swing
- −9.2%
- BJP share
- 32.7% → 33.2%
- BSP share
- 23.2% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- 60.4% → 61.6%