Constituency
179. Khunti
Community mirrorJharkhand · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-KHUNTI
BJP 41.2%won by 15.7%INC 25.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 15.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 34.0% to 41.2% of the vote here (+7.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.7% between them, down from 78.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.2% to 52.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,80,868
Turnout
52.0%
Valid votes
5,10,343
Margin
80,175
15.71%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1KARIA MUNDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,10,21441.2%
- 2NEIL TIRKEYIndian National Congress · INC1,30,03925.5%
- 3NISHIKANT HOROJan Kalyan Party · JKP84,02516.5%
- 4NITIMA BODRA BARIJKPN · JKPN30,0285.9%
- 5THEODORE KIROJVM · JVM23,0134.5%
- 6KARLUS BHENGRAIndependent · IND14,8532.9%
- 7MARSHAL BARLABahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,6631.7%
- 8UMBULAN TOPNOIndependent · IND4,9621.0%
- 9ANAND KUJURIndependent · IND4,5460.9%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +26.1%
- BJP share
- 34.0% → 41.2%
- INC share
- 44.5% → 25.5%
- Turnout
- 54.2% → 52.0%