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48. Forbesganj

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Bihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2020

BR-FORBESGANJ

BJP 49.5%won by 9.5%INC 40.0%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.6% to 9.5%.

  • New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 40.0% — it did not contest here in 2015.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.5% of the vote between them, up from 78.9% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
3,40,760
Turnout
60.6%
Valid votes
2,06,372
Margin
19,702
9.55%

Candidates

14 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1VIDYA SAGAR KESHARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,02,21249.5%
  2. 2ZAKIR HUSSAIN KHANIndian National Congress · INC82,51040.0%
  3. 3PRADEEP KUMAR DEOIndependent · IND6,4523.1%
  4. 4RAJA RAMAN BHASKARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,8182.8%
  5. 5NOTANOTA · NOTA3,3511.6%
  6. 6AKHLAQUR RAHMANJAPL · JAPL2,2071.1%
  7. 7MD. ARIFIndependent · IND1,0360.5%
  8. 8RUPESH RAJTPLRSP · TPLRSP6760.3%
  9. 9CHANDAN KUMAR MANDALRJBP · RJBP4850.2%
  10. 10RAM KUMAR BHAGATRPPRINAT · RPPRINAT4160.2%
  11. 11ASHOK MISHRASJDD · SJDD3490.2%
  12. 12MADAN KUMARAPADP · APADP3190.2%
  13. 13DEVESH KUMAR THAKURVCSMP · VCSMP2980.1%
  14. 14NASIRBPL · BPL2430.1%

Since 2015

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–INC swing
−36.7%
BJP share
46.2% → 49.5%
INC share
0.0% → 40.0%
Turnout
62.0% → 60.6%
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