Constituency
242. Jhajha
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2020
BR-JHAJHA
JDU 39.6%won by 0.9%RJD 38.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Janata Dal (United) (JDU), which now leads by 0.9%.
- JDU vote shareJDU went from 26.5% to 39.6% of the vote here (+13.0%).
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 38.7% — it did not contest here in 2015.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.2% of the vote between them, up from 66.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.7% to 61.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,16,049
Turnout
61.6%
Valid votes
1,94,609
Margin
1,679
0.86%
Candidates
11 contested · winner JDU- 1DAMODAR RAWATJanata Dal (United) · JDU76,97239.6%
- 2RAJENDRA PRASADRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD75,29338.7%
- 3BINOD PD. YADAVBahujan Samaj Party · BSP13,4796.9%
- 4RABINDRA YADAVLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP11,7626.0%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA6,2783.2%
- 6RAHUL KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND3,2601.7%
- 7VIJAY KUMARIndependent · IND2,9721.5%
- 8VINOD KUMAR SINHAIndependent · IND1,8701.0%
- 9AJEET KUMARJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,1860.6%
- 10PANKAJ THAKURIndependent · IND7770.4%
- 11MUKESH KUMAR YADAVIndependent · IND7600.4%
Since 2015
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- JDUflipped
- JDU–RJD swing
- −25.7%
- JDU share
- 26.5% → 39.6%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 38.7%
- Turnout
- 53.9% → 61.6%