Constituency
161. Banka
Community mirrorBihar · Bihar Assembly Election, 2025
BR-BANKA
BJP 49.6%won by 12.3%CPI 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.6% to 12.3%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 37.3% — it did not contest here in 2020.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.8% of the vote between them, up from 77.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,92,811
Margin
23,764
12.33%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1RAM NARAYAN MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP95,58849.6%
- 2SANJAY KUMARCommunist Party of India · CPI71,82437.3%
- 3KAUSHAL KUMAR SINGHJSURAJ · JSURAJ6,6493.4%
- 4JAWAHAR KUMAR JHAIndependent · IND4,1452.1%
- 5VIKRAM ANANDIndependent · IND2,2411.2%
- 6VINOD PANDITBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,7840.9%
- 7DR FIROZ ANSARIIndependent · IND1,5910.8%
- 8NOTANOTA · NOTA1,5520.8%
- 9AVINASH KUMARIndependent · IND1,3750.7%
- 10KUNDAN KUMAR ROYRLJP · RLJP1,2830.7%
- 11RAJNISH KUMAR CHOUDHARYAam Aadmi Party · AAP1,1700.6%
- 12MANOJ SINGHIndependent · IND1,1030.6%
- 13SAJAN KUMARIndependent · IND9900.5%
- 14MD ZAMIRUDDINIndependent · IND8420.4%
- 15UMAKANT YADAVIndependent · IND6740.3%
Since 2020
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–CPI swing
- −31.5%
- BJP share
- 43.8% → 49.6%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- 62.6% → —