Purnia Lok Sabha constituency

Purnia
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Pappu Yadav
Party	INC
Alliance	I.N.D.I.A.
Elected year	2024
Preceded by	Santosh Kushwaha   JD(U)

Purnia (formerly Purnea) is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India.

Assembly segments

Presently, Purnia Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:

#	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 lead
58	Kasba	Purnia	Md Afaque Alam		INC		INC
59	Banmankhi (SC)		Krishna Kumar Rishi		BJP		INC
60	Rupauli		Shankar Singh		INC		JD(U)
61	Dhamdaha		Leshi Singh		JD(U)		JD(U)
62	Purnia		Vijay Kumar Khemka		BJP		INC
69	Korha (SC)	Katihar	Kavita Devi		BJP		INC

Members of Parliament

The following is the list of the Members of Parliament elected from this constituency ^{[1] [2]}

Year	Name	Party
1952	Phani Gopal Sen Gupta		Indian National Congress
	Maneklal Madanlal Gandhi
	Benjaman Hansda
	Muhammad Islamuddin
1957	Phani Gopal Sen Gupta
1962
1967
1971	Mohammad Tahir
1977	Lakhan Lal Kapoor		Janata Party
1980	Madhuri Singh		Indian National Congress (I)
1984			Indian National Congress
1989	Taslimuddin		Janata Dal
1991	Election countermanded due to poll-rigging and violence [3]
1991^	Pappu Yadav		Independent
1996			Samajwadi Party
1998	Jai Krishna Mandal		Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Pappu Yadav		Independent
2004	Uday Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
2009
2014	Santosh Kushwaha		Janata Dal (United)
2019
2024	Pappu Yadav		Independent

^By-Poll

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Purnia ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Pappu Yadav	567,556	47.46	47.46
	JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha	5,43,709	45.47	9.38
	RJD	Bima Bharti	27,120	2.27	2.27
Margin of victory			23,847	1.99	20.84
Turnout			11,95,844	63.08	2.29
	INC gain from JD(U)		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Purnia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha	632,924	54.85
	INC	Uday Singh	3,69,463	32.02
	IND.	Shubhash Kumar Thakur	31,795	2.76
	IND.	Sageer Ahmad	21,374	1.85
	NOTA	None of the above	18,569	1.61
	BSP	Jitendra Urab	16,537	1.43
Majority			2,63,461	22.83
Turnout			11,53,989	65.37
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Purnia ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha	418,826	41.15
	BJP	Uday Singh	3,02,157	29.69
	INC	Amarnath Tiwari	1,24,344	12.22
	JMM	Mohammed Shamsher Alam	50,446	4.96
	AAP	Sudeep Roy	16,630	1.63
	NOTA	None of the above	11,982	1.18
Majority			1,16,669	11.46
Turnout			10,17,750	64.31
	JD(U) gain from BJP		Swing

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Purnia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Uday Singh	362,952	51.50
	IND.	Shanti Priya	1,76,725	25.08
	LJP	Shankar Jha	22,773	3.23
	IND.	Pramod Narayan Poddar	21,754	3.09
	BSP	Naveen Kumar Singh	21,281	3.02
Majority			1,86,227	26.42
Turnout			7,04,752	53.99
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Purnia district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha
• Kolasi
• Katihar

References

1. "Election Commission of India" Archived 2009-01-31 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Lok Sabha Former Members" Archived 2008-06-16 at the Wayback Machine
3. Singh, Santosh (16 October 2020). "Pappu Yadav, the 'pathik'".
4. "Lok Sabha 2024 Election results: Purnai". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 5 February 2025. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
5. "Navbharat Times"
6. "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 47. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
7. "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2015.

External links

• Purnia lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

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