Purnia (Lok Sabha constituency)

Purnia Lok Sabha constituency (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:

  1. (58) Kasba
  2. (59) Banmankhi
  3. (60) Rupauli
  4. (61) Dhamdaha
  5. (62) Purnia
  6. (69) Korha

Korha assembly seat is in Katihar district, while the remaining 5 seats are in Purnia district of Bihar.

Members of Parliament

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

Year Winner Party
1952 Phani Gopal Sen Gupta Indian National Congress
Maneklal Madanlal Gandhi Indian National Congress
Benjaman Hansda Indian National Congress
Muhammad Islamuddin Indian National Congress
1957 Phani Gopal Sen Gupta Indian National Congress
1962 Phani Gopal Sen Gupta Indian National Congress
1967 Phani Gopal Sen Gupta Indian National Congress
1971 Mohammad Tahir Indian National Congress
1977 Lakhan Lal Kapoor Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980 Madhuri Singh Indian National Congress (I)
1984 Madhuri Singh Indian National Congress (I)
1989 Mohammed Taslimuddin Janata Dal
1991 Rajesh Ranjan Independent
1996 Rajesh Ranjan Samajwadi Party
1998 Jai Krishna Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party
1999 Rajesh Ranjan Independent
2004 Uday Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2009 Uday Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2014 Santosh Kumar Kushwaha Janata Dal (United)
2019 Santosh Kumar Kushwaha Janata Dal (United)

General Election Result
2019 Indian general elections: Purnia
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Santosh Kumar Kushwaha 6,32,924 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 Indian general elections: Purnia [3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JD(U) Santosh Kumar Kushwaha 4,18,826 41.15
BJP Uday Singh 3,02,157 29.69
INC Amarnath Tiwari 1,24,344 12.22
JMM MD 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 Indian general elections: Purnia
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Uday Singh 3,62,952 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

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

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