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157. Sultanganj

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Bihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2020

BR-SULTANGANJ

JDU 42.6%won by 6.8%INC 35.8%

What changed here

Derived

Janata Dal (United) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.1% to 6.8%.

  • New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 35.8% — it did not contest here in 2015.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.4% of the vote between them, up from 72.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout rose 2.1% to 52.1%.

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

Electorate
3,28,314
Turnout
52.1%
Valid votes
1,71,037
Margin
11,565
6.76%

Candidates

14 contested · winner JDU
  1. 1Lalit Narayan MandalJanata Dal (United) · JDU72,82342.6%
  2. 2Lalan KumarIndian National Congress · INC61,25835.8%
  3. 3Nilam DeviLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP10,2226.0%
  4. 4Himanshu Prasad @ Himanshu KumarRLSP · RLSP5,7133.3%
  5. 5NOTANOTA · NOTA4,7192.8%
  6. 6Ravi Suman Kumar @ Arun MandalBHRTSBLP · BHRTSBLP4,6922.7%
  7. 7Ramanand PaswanIndependent · IND2,8601.7%
  8. 8Rajan KumarIndependent · IND2,3891.4%
  9. 9Raj KumarIndependent · IND1,5140.9%
  10. 10Kiran MishraIndependent · IND1,3030.8%
  11. 11Naresh DasSUCI · SUCI1,1060.6%
  12. 12Madhu PriyaIndependent · IND9320.5%
  13. 13Pankaj KumarJDR · JDR7780.5%
  14. 14Nand Kishor SharmaLSMP · LSMP7280.4%

Since 2015

Derived
Winner then
JDU
Winner now
JDU
JDU–INC swing
−34.2%
JDU share
40.9% → 42.6%
INC share
0.0% → 35.8%
Turnout
50.0% → 52.1%
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