Constituency
63. Katihar
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2020
BR-KATIHAR
BJP 48.5%won by 6.2%RJD 42.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.7% to 6.2%.
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 42.3% — it did not contest here in 2015.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.8% of the vote between them, up from 76.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,73,824
Turnout
62.3%
Valid votes
1,70,554
Margin
10,519
6.17%
Candidates
20 contested · winner BJP- 1Tarkishore PrasadBharatiya Janata Party · BJP82,66948.5%
- 2Dr. Ram Prakash MahtoRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD72,15042.3%
- 3Mohammad Kalamuddin Ansari Alies KalamIndependent · IND2,5331.5%
- 4Rajesh GurnaniNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,1731.3%
- 5Sanjay SinghIndependent · IND1,4930.9%
- 6Chandan KishoreIndependent · IND1,4880.9%
- 7Bibhaker Jha Alies Victor JhaIndependent · IND1,1920.7%
- 8Samir Kumar JhaIndependent · IND1,0920.6%
- 9Md ZameedSDPI · SDPI9640.6%
- 10NOTANOTA · NOTA7870.5%
- 11Ajay Kumar SahSuheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party · SBSP7550.4%
- 12Kamal SharmaIndependent · IND6150.4%
- 13Kundan KumarJanahitha Paksha · JP5150.3%
- 14Ashok Kumar BhagatIndependent · IND3840.2%
- 15Afaque AinulIndependent · IND3520.2%
- 16Satyanarayan AgrawalIndependent · IND3200.2%
- 17Manisha KumariPPID · PPID2940.2%
- 18Poonam DeviBHJJP · BHJJP2780.2%
- 19Dilip Kumar PoddarJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS2710.2%
- 20Janardan SinghRTORP · RTORP2290.1%
Since 2015
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–RJD swing
- −36.8%
- BJP share
- 43.0% → 48.5%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 42.3%
- Turnout
- 63.3% → 62.3%