Constituency
73. Darbhanga
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-DARBHANGA
BJP 38.0%won by 4.2%RJD 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.5% to 4.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.8% between them, down from 79.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 13.6% to 55.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,95,445
Turnout
55.4%
Valid votes
8,28,342
Margin
35,043
4.23%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1KIRTI AZADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,14,94938.0%
- 2MD. ALI ASHRAF FATMIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,79,90633.8%
- 3SANJAY KUMAR JHAJanata Dal (United) · JDU1,04,49412.6%
- 4KEDAR KU. KESHAVShiv Sena · SHS25,2773.1%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA21,1032.5%
- 6PRAVIN KUMAR JHAIndependent · IND16,1251.9%
- 7HADAY NA. YADAVCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,6061.4%
- 8KRISHNA KUMAR PASWANIndependent · IND10,0801.2%
- 9COLONEL LAKSHMESHWAR MISHRACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL9,1111.1%
- 10DURGA NAND MAHAVIR NAYAKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,8351.1%
- 11DR. PRABHAT RANJAN DASAam Aadmi Party · AAP7,5500.9%
- 12PRADEEP PASWANIndependent · IND5,9630.7%
- 13SADRE ALAM KHANAKBMP · AKBMP4,5580.6%
- 14JAINATHBMUP · BMUP2,9560.4%
- 15BRAHMADEO PRASAD KARYEEBJKVP · BJKVP2,9290.4%
- 16FAISAL AHMADJDR · JDR2,9000.4%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–RJD swing
- −4.3%
- BJP share
- 43.8% → 38.0%
- RJD share
- 35.3% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- 41.8% → 55.4%