Constituency
83. Purnea
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-PURNEA
BJP 34.5%won by 1.8%LJNSP 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 1.8%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 26.8% to 34.5% of the vote here (+7.7%).
- New challengerLJNSP (LJNSP) finished second with 32.7% — it did not contest here in 1999.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.1% between them, down from 89.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.8% to 60.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,79,491
Turnout
60.1%
Valid votes
7,09,015
Margin
12,883
1.82%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1UDAY SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,44,42634.5%
- 2RAJESH RANJAN ALIAS PAPPU YADAVLJNSP · LJNSP2,31,54332.7%
- 3JEEVACHHA PASWANIndependent · IND57,0218.0%
- 4DR. IRSHAD AHMAD KHANSamajwadi Party · SP47,3016.7%
- 5RAJ KUMAR HEMBRAMJDP · JDP25,6093.6%
- 6AWADESH KU MANDALIndependent · IND21,6193.0%
- 7SATYA NARAYAN RAMIndependent · IND18,3782.6%
- 8NEELAM DEVIIndependent · IND16,5692.3%
- 9JAI KRISHNA MANDALSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP14,1602.0%
- 10SYED SAHID RAJABahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,9761.1%
- 11MADHAVI SARKARCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7,5951.1%
- 12LALIT MOHAN SINGHIndependent · IND6,7401.0%
- 13MD. RIAUZUDDINIndependent · IND4,0560.6%
- 14PRAKASH KUMAR SINGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD3,3020.5%
- 15UPENDRA NATH SAGARRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD2,7200.4%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–LJNSP swing
- −24.9%
- BJP share
- 26.8% → 34.5%
- LJNSP share
- 0.0% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- 63.9% → 60.1%