Purnia Lok Sabha Election Result 2024 Live Updates: With the counting of votes for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections underway, the results for one of the biggest elections in the world are finally being declared.
Over seven thousand candidates are in the electoral fray to gain the mandate of over 900 million eligible voters across 543 constituencies spread across 28 states and 9 union territories. The voting for these parliamentary elections were held in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June 2024. Now, it is time for the results.
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Live Updates of Purnia Lok Sabha Election Results 2024
The polling for Purnia was held in Phase 2 on 26 April.
Bihar’s Purnia is up for a triangular fight after local heavyweight Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav filed his nomination as an independent candidate against JD(U) general secretary Santosh Kumar Kushwaha and RJD’s Bima Bharti. Yadav had merged his Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik) with the Congress in March 2024 eyeing for a Lok Sabha ticket. However, after Congress declared RJD's Bima Bharti as the INDIA candidate for the seat, Yadav filed his nomination as an independent candidate.
Yadav's candidature is significant because he has been a three-time MP from Purnia (two of which was as an independent candidate). He has also won Madhepura Lok Sabha seat twice on RJD’s ticket.
Having won two consecutive times from this seat, Kushwaha faces anti-incumbency this time. RJD's Bima Bharti, is a five-time MLA from Purnia's Rupali assembly seat.
In the last Lok Sabha polls, BJP-JD(U)-led NDA had won 39 seats out of the 40 in Bihar, while Congress won one. As per INDIA bloc's seat-sharing pact in Bihar, RJD is contesting on 26 seats, Congress on nine, and the Left parties on five. Purnia fell under RJD's quota.
As per the latest trends of counting of votes for 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Independent Rajesh Ranjan Alias Pappu Yadav has won Purnia seat.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Purnia seat was won by JD(U) candidate Santosh Kumar, while Congress candidate Uday Singh Alias Pappu Singh had come in second place.
In 2014's General Elections, Purnia constituency was won by JD (U) candidate Santosh Kumar and BJP candidate Uday Singh Alias Pappu Singh was the runner-up.
Assembly seats that fall under Purnia parliamentary constituency include Kasba, Banmankhi (Sc), Rupauli, Dhamdaha, Purnia, Korha (Sc).
Purnia is one of the Lok Sabha seats of Bihar.
Bihar Lok Sabha Elections 2024
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, 40 seats of Bihar went to polls across seven phases from 19 April to 1 June.
Out of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, BJP got the lion's share of seats in the state’s ruling alliance, NDA. The saffron party is contesting on 17 seats, JD(U) is contesting on 16 seats, while LJP (Ram Vilas) is competing on five seats. One seat each is being contested by HAM and RLM.
According to the seat sharing agreement of INDIA parties in Bihar or Mahagathbandhan, Congress has fielded its candidates on nine seats, RJD on 23 seats, CPI(ML) Liberation on three seats, VIP on three seats, CPI on one seat, and CPI(M) on one seat.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, NDA swept Bihar winning 39 out of 40 seats. BJP won 17 seats, JD(U) won 16, and LJP won six seats. While RJD couldn't manage to win in any seat, Congress emerged as winner in Congress. In the previous Lok Sabha elections of 2014, BJP won twenty-two seats and LJP won six, while Congress and JD(U) won two seats each. RJD was successful on four seats, RLSP won three seats, and NCP won one.