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46. Potka

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Jharkhand · Jharkhand Assembly Election, 2014

JH-POTKA

BJP 36.7%won by 3.6%JMM 33.1%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.9% to 3.6%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 69.8% of the vote between them, up from 54.8% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate
2,70,603
Turnout
68.7%
Valid votes
1,85,859
Margin
6,706
3.61%

Candidates

13 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1MENAKA SARDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP68,19136.7%
  2. 2SANJIB SARDARJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM61,48533.1%
  3. 3DUKHNI MAI SARDARIndian National Congress · INC14,2277.7%
  4. 4SURYA SINGH BESRAJKPP · JKPP12,1776.6%
  5. 5UPENDRA NATH SARDARJVM · JVM10,9055.9%
  6. 6NARESH KUMAR MURMUSamajwadi Party · SP3,7672.0%
  7. 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3,7302.0%
  8. 8SAGAR BESRAIndependent · IND2,2701.2%
  9. 9AMULYA SARDARIndependent · IND2,1161.1%
  10. 10SUKLAL BOIPAIJBSP · JBSP1,9301.0%
  11. 11DIPALI SARDARIndependent · IND1,7100.9%
  12. 12SHUSHMA HEMBRAMAPOI · APOI1,6960.9%
  13. 13GANESH TUDUAKBJHP · AKBJHP1,6550.9%

Since 2009

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–JMM swing
−11.0%
BJP share
33.4% → 36.7%
JMM share
18.8% → 33.1%
Turnout
— → 68.7%
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