Purnia Lok Sabha constituency

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Purnia
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
Established1952
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Party Janata Dal (United)
Elected year2019

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

Contents

Assembly segments

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

#NameDistrictMemberParty2019 lead
58 Kasba Purnia Md Afaque Alam INC JDU
59 Banmankhi (SC) Krishna Kumar Rishi BJP JDU
60 Rupauli Bima Bharti RJD JDU
61 Dhamdaha Leshi Singh JDU JDU
62 Purnia Vijay Kumar Khemka BJP JDU
69 Korha (SC) Katihar Kavita Devi BJP JDU

Members of Parliament

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

YearNameParty
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

^By-Poll

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Purnia
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD(U) Santosh Kumar Kushwaha
RJD Bima Bharti
Independent Pappu Yadav
Margin of victory
Turnout 63.08
Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Purnia
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD(U) Santosh Kumar Kushwaha 632,924 54.85
INC Uday Singh 3,69,46332.02
IND. Shubhash Kumar Thakur31,7952.76
IND. Sageer Ahmad21,3741.85
NOTA None of the above 18,5691.61
BSP Jitendra Urab16,5371.43
Majority2,63,46122.83
Turnout 11,53,98965.37
JD(U) hold Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Purnia [4] [5] [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD(U) Santosh Kumar Kushwaha 4,18,82641.15
BJP Uday Singh 3,02,15729.69
INC Amarnath Tiwari1,24,34412.22
JMM Mohammed Shamsher Alam50,4464.96
AAP Sudeep Roy16,6301.63
NOTA None of the above 11,9821.18
Majority1,16,66911.46
Turnout 10,17,75064.31
JD(U) gain from BJP Swing

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Purnia
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Uday Singh 3,62,95251.50
IND. Shanti Priya1,76,72525.08
LJP Shankar Jha22,7733.23
IND. Pramod Narayan Poddar21,7543.09
BSP Naveen Kumar Singh21,2813.02
Majority1,86,22726.42
Turnout 7,04,75253.99
BJP hold Swing

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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. "Navbharat Times"
  5. "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 47. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  6. "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 25 May 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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