Purnia (Lok Sabha constituency)

Purnia Lok Sabha constituency (formerly Purnea) (Hindi: पूर्णिया लोकसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) 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. Kasba
  2. Banmankhi
  3. Rupauli
  4. Dhamdaha
  5. Purnia
  6. Korha

Members of Parliament

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

2014 General Election Candidates

Indian general elections, 2014: Purnia[3][4][5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
INC Amarnath Tiwari 124344 12.22
BJP Uday Singh 302157 29.69
CPI(M) Pankaj Kumar Singh 7912 0.78
BSP Raj Kumar Uron 11196 1.10
JD(U) Santosh Kumar 418826 41.15
AAP Sudeep Roy 16630 1.63
JMM MD SHAMSHER ALAM 50446 4.96
NOTA None of the above 11982 1.18
Majority
Turnout 1017732 64.31%
General Election, 2009: 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 2015-09-21.
  5. "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on May 25, 2014. Retrieved 2015-09-21.

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