GEN · Bihar
Purnia
Santosh Kumar (JD(U)) won by 2,63,461 votes (23.2%).
- Electors
- 20,55,471
- Votes polled
- 11,53,940
- Valid votes
- 11,35,371
- Turnout
- 56.1%
- NOTA
- 18,569
- Polling date
- 2019-04-11
Margin vs 2019 national median: 23.2% (median 15.4%). Back to Bihar · 2019 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) | 6,32,924 | 55.7% |
| 2 | Uday Singh Alias Pappu Singh | INC | 3,69,463 | 32.5% |
| 3 | Shubhash Kumar Thakur | IND | 31,795 | 2.8% |
| 4 | Sageer Ahmad | IND | 21,374 | 1.9% |
| 5 | Jitendra Urab | BSP | 16,537 | 1.5% |
| 6 | Anirudh Mehta | IND | 9,359 | 0.8% |
| 7 | Rajesh Kumar | IND | 9,079 | 0.8% |
| 8 | Manju Murmu | JMM | 7,963 | 0.7% |
| 9 | Ashok Kumar Singh | IND | 7,565 | 0.7% |
| 10 | Ashok Kumar Sah | IND | 7,314 | 0.6% |
| 11 | Shobha Soren | IND | 6,947 | 0.6% |
| 12 | Arjun Singh | IND | 4,444 | 0.4% |
| 13 | Rajiv Kumar Singh | IND | 3,403 | 0.3% |
| 14 | Dr. Mritunjay Kumar Jha | IND | 3,175 | 0.3% |
| 15 | Sanoj Kumar Chauhan | BLND | 2,625 | 0.2% |
| 16 | Md. Akhtar Ali | IND | 1,404 | 0.1% |
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