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Constituency

206. Chainpur

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Bihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2015

BR-CHAINPUR

BJP 33.2%won by 0.4%BSP 32.8%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya 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%

Since 2010

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJPBSP swing
−9.2%
BJP share
32.7% 33.2%
BSP share
23.2% 32.8%
Turnout
60.4% 61.6%