Constituency
159. Amarpur
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2020
BR-AMARPUR
JDU 33.1%won by 1.9%INC 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal (United) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.6% to 1.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 2015.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.4% between them, down from 88.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,95,587
Turnout
55.5%
Valid votes
1,63,933
Margin
3,114
1.90%
Candidates
13 contested · winner JDU- 1Jayant RajJanata Dal (United) · JDU54,30833.1%
- 2Jitendra SinghIndian National Congress · INC51,19431.2%
- 3Mrinal ShekharLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP40,30824.6%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA3,5342.2%
- 5Pravin Kumar JhaIndependent · IND2,1251.3%
- 6Anil Kumar SinghNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,0961.3%
- 7Krishana Mohan ThakurIndependent · IND2,0891.3%
- 8Bipin Kishor RayIndependent · IND1,9231.2%
- 9Ashok KumarRTORP · RTORP1,7201.0%
- 10Pradip Kumar RanjanBPL · BPL1,3910.8%
- 11AJAY KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,3310.8%
- 12Pushkar KumarBHRTSBLP · BHRTSBLP1,0490.6%
- 13Anjani KumarIndependent · IND8650.5%
Since 2015
Derived- Winner then
- JDU
- Winner now
- JDU
- JDU–INC swing
- −46.0%
- JDU share
- 47.9% → 33.1%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- 55.6% → 55.5%