Constituency
115. Baniapur
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2020
BR-BANIAPUR
RJD 38.7%won by 16.5%VSIP 22.2%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.5% to 16.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerVSIP (VSIP) finished second with 22.2% — it did not contest here in 2015.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.0% between them, down from 81.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.3% to 52.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,18,503
Turnout
52.8%
Valid votes
1,68,297
Margin
27,789
16.51%
Candidates
14 contested · winner RJD- 1KEDAR NATH SINGHRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD65,19438.7%
- 2VIRENDRA KUMAR OJHAVSIP · VSIP37,40522.2%
- 3TARKESHWAR SINGHLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP33,08219.7%
- 4SUMIT KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND12,4857.4%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA4,6572.8%
- 6PUSHPA KUMARIIndependent · IND2,3951.4%
- 7SUDHIR KUMARIndependent · IND2,1571.3%
- 8DABLU KUMARIndependent · IND2,1241.3%
- 9NARAYAN PD. YADAWIndependent · IND2,0391.2%
- 10ANIL KUMAR RAMJDR · JDR1,8821.1%
- 11NAWAL KISHOR KUSHWAHABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,7261.0%
- 12CHIKI SINGHTPLRSP · TPLRSP1,1560.7%
- 13KAMESHWAR BAITHAJAPL · JAPL1,0710.6%
- 14MADAN SINGHIndependent · IND9240.5%
Since 2015
Derived- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- RJD
- RJD–VSIP swing
- −29.4%
- RJD share
- 45.9% → 38.7%
- VSIP share
- 0.0% → 22.2%
- Turnout
- 50.6% → 52.8%