GEN · Bihar
Purnia
Santosh Kumar (JD(U)) won by 1,16,669 votes (11.6%).
- Electors
- 15,82,967
- Votes polled
- 10,17,732
- Valid votes
- 10,05,750
- Turnout
- 64.3%
- NOTA
- 11,982
- Polling date
- 2014-04-24
Margin vs 2014 national median: 11.6% (median 13.8%). Back to Bihar · 2014 national · Target seats
Seat health
Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.
Marginal (2–5%)Flipped vs 2019
- Margin · 2024
- 2.0%(-21.2%)
- Turnout
- 63.1%(+7.0%)
- NOTA
- 2.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 94.8%
Winning margin over time · Purnia
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santosh KumarWinner | JD(U) | 4,18,826 | 41.6% |
| 2 | Uday Singh Alias Pappu Singh | BJP | 3,02,157 | 30.0% |
| 3 | Amarnath Tiwari | INC | 1,24,344 | 12.4% |
| 4 | Md Shamsher Alam | JMM | 50,446 | 5.0% |
| 5 | Navlesh Pathak | IND | 18,776 | 1.9% |
| 6 | Sudeep Roy | AAP | 16,630 | 1.7% |
| 7 | Raj Kumar Oraon | BSP | 11,196 | 1.1% |
| 8 | Sanjay Singh | IND | 9,196 | 0.9% |
| 9 | Anil Kumar Mahto | JPS | 9,162 | 0.9% |
| 10 | Kunj Bihari Paswan | IND | 8,321 | 0.8% |
| 11 | Pankaj Kumar Singh | CPI(ML)(L) | 7,912 | 0.8% |
| 12 | Syed Shah Eqbal Alam | BEMP | 6,324 | 0.6% |
| 13 | Md Akhtar Ali | IND | 5,849 | 0.6% |
| 14 | Md Shahid Akhtar | BMUP | 5,137 | 0.5% |
| 15 | Pramod Narayan Poddar | BJJD | 4,664 | 0.5% |
| 16 | Fagu Marandi | JDP | 3,440 | 0.3% |
| 17 | Mansur Alam | SP | 3,370 | 0.3% |
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