Constituency
73. Darbhanga
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-DARBHANGA
BJP 43.8%won by 8.5%RJD 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 37.3% to 43.8% of the vote here (+6.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.2% between them, down from 93.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 21.7% to 41.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,07,067
Turnout
41.8%
Valid votes
5,45,713
Margin
46,453
8.51%
Candidates
14 contested · winner BJP- 1KIRTI AZADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,39,26843.8%
- 2MD. ALI ASHRAF FATMIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD1,92,81535.3%
- 3AJAY KUMAR JALANIndian National Congress · INC40,7247.5%
- 4PROF. HARE RAM ACHARYAIndependent · IND12,9772.4%
- 5SATHY NARAYN MUKHIYACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL12,1542.2%
- 6LALBAHADUR YADAVIndependent · IND10,6221.9%
- 7YUGESHWAR SAHANIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9,2341.7%
- 8BHARAT YADAVIndependent · IND6,7361.2%
- 9ABDUR RAHIMIndependent · IND4,9180.9%
- 10GOVIND ACHARYAIndependent · IND3,7550.7%
- 11MD. NIZAMUDDINIJP · IJP3,5400.6%
- 12MD. KHURSEED ALAMApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD3,1670.6%
- 13DURGA NAND MAHABIR NAYAKBJJD · BJJD3,0860.6%
- 14KUMARI SURESHWARIRMEP · RMEP2,7170.5%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–RJD swing
- +27.3%
- BJP share
- 37.3% → 43.8%
- RJD share
- 56.1% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 63.4% → 41.8%