Purnia Lok Sabha constituency

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

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#	Name	District	Member
58	Kasba	Purnia	Md Afaque Alam	INC	IND
59	Banmankhi (SC)		Krishna Kumar Rishi	BJP	IND
60	Rupauli		Shankar Singh	IND	JD(U)
61	Dhamdaha		Leshi Singh	JD(U)	JD(U)
62	Purnia		Vijay Kumar Khemka	BJP	IND
69	Korha (SC)	Katihar	Kavita Devi	BJP	IND

Year	Name
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	Madhuri Singh	Indian National Congress
1989	Taslimuddin	Janata Dal
1991	Election countermanded due to poll-rigging and violence^[3]
1991^	Pappu Yadav	Independent
1996	Pappu Yadav	Samajwadi Party
1998	Jai Krishna Mandal	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Pappu Yadav	Independent
2004	Uday Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2009	Uday Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Santosh Kushwaha	Janata Dal (United)
2019	Santosh Kushwaha	Janata Dal (United)
2024	Pappu Yadav	Independent

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Pappu Yadav	567,556	47.46	47.46
	JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha	5,43,709	45.47	9.38
	RJD	Bima Bharti	27,120	2.27	2.27
Margin of victory			23,847	1.99	20.84
Turnout			11,96,238	63.12	2.25
	Independent gain from JD(U)		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	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
	JD(U) hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha	418,826	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
	JD(U) gain from BJP		Swing

Assembly segments

2009 Indian general elections: Purnia
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Uday Singh	362,952	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