Constituency
70. Katihar
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-KATIHAR
BJP 37.2%won by 1.9%NCP 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 1.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.5% between them, down from 81.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.9% to 57.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,72,769
Turnout
57.0%
Valid votes
7,24,802
Margin
14,015
1.93%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1NIKHIL KUMAR CHOUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,69,83437.2%
- 2SHAH TARIQ ANWARNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,55,81935.3%
- 3AHMAD ASHFAQUE KARIMLoktantrik Janshakti Party · LJP45,7736.3%
- 4HIMRAJ SINGHIndependent · IND42,0265.8%
- 5MAHBOOB ALAMCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL32,0354.4%
- 6MOHAMMAD HAMID MUBARAKIndependent · IND23,8943.3%
- 7MADAN MOHAN NISHADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP15,7602.2%
- 8SUNIL KUMAR CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND7,9981.1%
- 9OM PRAKASH PODDARBJJD · BJJD5,1070.7%
- 10CHANDU MURMUIndependent · IND4,8710.7%
- 11MANOJ PARASHARIndependent · IND4,1660.6%
- 12RAJESH GURNANILTSD · LTSD4,0200.6%
- 13BABU LAL MARANDIIndependent · IND3,5070.5%
- 14RAJGIRI SINGHIndependent · IND3,3990.5%
- 15MUNNI DEVIABJS · ABJS3,3430.5%
- 16PHOOLO DEVIIndependent · IND3,2500.4%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–NCP swing
- +1.6%
- BJP share
- 41.0% → 37.2%
- NCP share
- 40.6% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 60.8% → 57.0%