Purnia (Lok Sabha constituency)

Purnia Lok Sabha constituency (formerly Purnea) is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India.

Assembly segments[edit]

Presently, Purnia Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	MLA	Party	Party Leading (in 2019)
58	Kasba	None	Purnia	Md. Afaque Amam	INC	JD(U)
59	Banmankhi	SC	Purnia	Krishna Kumar Rishi	BJP	JD(U)
60	Rupauli	None	Purnia	Bima Bharti	JD(U)	JD(U)
61	Dhamdaha	None	Purnia	Leshi Singh	JD(U)	JD(U)
62	Purnia	None	Purnia	Vijay Kumar Khemka	BJP	JD(U)
69	Korha	SC	Katihar	Kavita Devi	BJP	JD(U)

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

Year	Winner	Party
1952	Phani Gopal Sen Gupta	Indian National Congress
	Maneklal Madanlal Gandhi	Indian National Congress
	Benjaman Hansda	Indian National Congress
	Muhammad Islamuddin	Indian National Congress
1957	Phani Gopal Sen Gupta	Indian National Congress
1962	Phani Gopal Sen Gupta	Indian National Congress
1967	Phani Gopal Sen Gupta	Indian National Congress
1971	Mohammad Tahir	Indian National Congress
1977	Lakhan Lal Kapoor	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	Madhuri Singh	Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Madhuri Singh	Indian National Congress (I)
1989	Mohammed Taslimuddin	Janata Dal
1991	Election countermanded due to poll-rigging and violence^[3]
1991	Rajesh Ranjan	Independent
1996	Rajesh Ranjan	Samajwadi Party
1998	Jai Krishna Mandal	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Rajesh Ranjan	Independent
2004	Uday Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2009	Uday Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha	Janata Dal (United)
2019	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha	Janata Dal (United)

2019 Indian general elections: Purnia
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha	6,32,924	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
	JD(U) hold		Swing

2014 Indian general elections: Purnia^[4]^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	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	MD 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
	JD(U) gain from BJP		Swing

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