Purnia Lok Sabha constituency

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

Purnia
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
Established1952
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Party  Independent
Alliance  I.N.D.I.A.
Elected year2024
Preceded bySantosh Kushwaha
  JD(U)

Assembly segments

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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 IND
59 Banmankhi (SC) Krishna Kumar Rishi BJP IND
60 Rupauli Shankar Singh IND JD(U)
61 Dhamdaha Leshi Singh JD(U) JD(U)
62 Purnia Vijay Kumar Khemka BJP IND
69 Korha (SC) Katihar Kavita Devi BJP IND

Members of Parliament

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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

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2024

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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
Independent gain from JD(U) Swing

2019

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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

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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

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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

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References

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  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. ^ "Result 2024". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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