Purnia Lok Sabha constituency

Purnia
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
Established 1952
Reservation None
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Party Janata Dal (United)
Elected year 2019

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 2019 lead
58 Kasba Purnia Md Afaque Alam INC JDU
59 Banmankhi (SC) Krishna Kumar Rishi BJP JDU
60 Rupauli Bima Bharti JDU 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

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
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

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Purnia
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Janata Dal (United) 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
Janata Dal (United) hold Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Purnia
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Janata Dal (United) 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 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
Janata Dal (United) gain from BJP Swing

2009

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