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Summary on the 5th phase of Bihar polls
By Deepak Parvatiyar
November 6, 2015
The fifth and concluding phase of Bihar elections for 57 assembly seats on
November 5 saw 60% turnout of voters which was the highest these elections,
surpassing the 57.59% voter turnout in the fourth phase of elections. Each of
the phases saw over 55% voting except the third phase which saw the lowest
turnout at 53.32%.The turnout in the fifth phase was 4.56% more than the last assembly elections and 0.59% more than the last Lok Sabha elections in the region. In all 1,55,36,660 voters turned out to seal the fate of 827 candidates including 58 women candidates in the ballot box in the last leg of voting in the nine districts nine districts — Araria, Darbhanga, Katihar, Kishanganj, Madhepura, Madhubani, Purnia, Saharsa and Supaul.
Women’s Participation in the Fifth Phase
An achievement was the continued large turnout of female voters in all the phases. Surpassing the 60.40% women’s turnout that was registered in the fourth phase, the fifth phase saw a remarkable 63.60% voting by women voters. They outnumbered the men voters by 7.55% in the fifth round. Much is being attributed to the mass exodus of men from their homeland in search of jobs outside the state to their lesser turnout this time. In the first phase, 59.5 per cent women had voted as against 54.5 per cent men. In the second phase 57.5% women had turned out to vote as against 52.5% men. In the third phase 54% women cast their votes as against 52.50% men while in the fourth phase, only 54.20% men had turned out to vote.Large Turnout in Muslim Dominated Districts
Among the nine districts, Katihar district recorded the highest 67.27% voter turnout in the fifth phase. This was 4.94% more than the voters’turnout registered in the 2010 assembly elections in the district. However the per centage of voters dipped by 0.65% as compared to the 67.92% turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the district. The highest turnout among the seven assembly constituencies that fall in the district was 72.76% in Barari assembly constituency where the sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Bibhash Chandra Chaudhary is pitted against Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Neeraj Kumar. Yet another assembly constituency in the district, Korha (SC) saw over 70 per cent voters’ turnout (72.26%) where the sitting BJP MLA Mahesh Paswan is pitted against Punam Paswan of the Congress among others. Incidentally, no other assembly constituency that went to poll in the fifth phase witnessed over 70% voting except the above two and both assembly segments had seen over 70% turnout even in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.Katihar was followed by Kishangaj that registered 64.39% voters’ turnout which was 5.41% more than the voting percentage in the 2010 assembly elections and 0.5% more than the turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the district. Among the four assembly constituencies in the district, the highest voters’ turnout (67.27%) was recorded at Thakurganj which though was less than the 69.40% polling figures registered in the assembly segment in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. However, the per centage voting this time in Thakurganj, where Naushad Alam,who had won last time on Lok Janshakti Party ticket, is seeking re-election as a Janata Dal (United) candidate this time and is pitted against LJP’s Gopal Kumar Agrawal and Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)’s Punam Devi among others.
Purnea district with 62.95% turnout was the third in the line and the comparative jump in the turnout in the district was 2.75% more than the 2010 assembly elections turnount and 0.69% more than 2014 Lok Sabha elections turnout in the district. Here, at least one assembly constituency, Baisi, registered lesser voters’ turnout than what was registered here during the 2010 assembly as well as 2014 Lok Sabha elections. From here, RJD”s sitting MLA Abdus Subhan is pitted against the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party’s Azizur Rahman and Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)’s Syed Ruknuddin Ahmad, who had contested as a JD(U) candidate in the 2014 byelection from here. It may be mentioned that in 2010 assembly elections though, the BJP’s Santosh Kushwaha had won from Baisi but he resigned from the BJP and was the JD (U)’s candidate for the Purnia Lok Sabha seat in the last general parliamentary elections in 2014.
Besides, in two other assembly constituencies in Purnea district – Amour and Rupauli – saw lesser turnout than what was registered in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in these assembly segments. However, the turnout at both these constituencies was more than the 2010 figures.
An average 62% turnout was registered in the six assembly segments of Araria district. This was 1.70% more than the 2010 figures and 1.66% more than the 2014 figures in the district. Except for Forbesganj assembly constituency that saw a dip in the turnout figures as compared to the turnout in the segment during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, all other assembly constituencies in the districtsaw a larger per centage of voters’ turnout than that in 2010 as well as 2014.
Supaul district, with five assembly constituencies saw 58.60% voters’ turnout and was the among the three districts in the fifth phase of polling that saw a dip in the voters’ turnout from both the 2010 as well as 2014 figures. The other two districts being Madhepura and Saharsa.
In the 2010 assembly elections Supaul had registered 60.16% voters’ turnout while in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the average voters’ turnout in its five assembly segments was 62.58%.
Similarly the voters’ turnout in Madhepura was 57.84% this year as against 59.44% in 2010 and 60.76% in 2014, while in Saharsa, it was 50.78% in 2015 as against 53.04% in 2010 and 56.24% in 2014.
In all Katihar (which recorded the highest voters’ turnout in fifth round), Madhepura, Saharsa, and Supaul were the four districts in the fifth phase, where the voting per centage was less this time than in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Madhubani registered 55.87% turnout and Darbhanga, 58.27%, turnout in the final phase.
What is significant is that the districts with high voters’ turnout have large Muslim population. While Kishanganj bordering Bangladesh has an overwhelming 67.98 per cent Muslim population, Araria and Katihar have well over 40 per cent Muslim population (42.98% and 44.47% respectively). Purnea has nearly 40 per cent Muslim population.
Like in the third and fourth round, the Bharatiya Janata Party has much in the stake in the fifth round as well where it is contesting 38 of the 57 seats in the region, thus leaving only 19 seats for its other alliance partners. In the 2010 assembly elections, it had won the largest number of seats (23) in these districts . the JD(U), the BJP’s alliance partner then, had won 20 seats in the region in 2010 while the RJD had own just 8 and the Congress, 3, seats in the region. Howeverafter the JD(U)-BJP alliance was broken, the BJP had lost three Lok Sabha seats in Seemanchal – Araria, Purnea and Katihar — in 2014 general elections.
Meanwhile the boycott of elections in certain constituencies continued in the fifth phase as well with voters boycotting polling at two polling centres – Babubarhi in Madhubani district and Manihar (ST) in Katihar district. It may be mentioned that in the first phase of polling, voters had boycotted polling at nine polling centres, and in the second phase, at 13 centres. In the third phase voters had boycotted polling at four polling centres, and in the fourth phase, at seven polling centres. However a hallmark of the elections in the state, which was once notorious for poll-violence and booth capturing, was that it remained peaceful in all phases this time thanks to the elaborate measures and security arrangements by the Election Commission. While five drones/helicopters had continuously kept vigil over the naxal hit regions of the state, the Election Commission had set up 65,349 control unit, and even an Android mobile application was developed to monitor model code of conduct and cases of expenditure violation besides other measures to ensure peaceful elections.
Overall, the average voters’ turnout of 56.80% in all the five phases was registered which was 4.15% more than the turnout percentage in the 2010 assembly elections in the state that had seen 52.65% voting. The voters’ turnout this time was also 1.42% higher than the turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the state.
Among the 38 districts of Bihar, Katihar registered the highest 67.27 percentage of voters’ turnout in 2015, followed by Kishanganj (64.39%) and Purnea (62.95%). The other districts that registered over 60% turnout were West Champaran (62.76%), Araria (62%), and Muzaffarpur (61.02%).
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Summary on the 5th phase of Bihar polls
The fifth and concluding phase
of Bihar elections for 57 assembly seats on November 5 saw 60% turnout
of voters which was the highest these elections, surpassing the 57.59%
voter turnout in the fourth phase of elections. Each of the phases saw
over 55% voting except the third phase which saw the lowest turnout at
53.32%.
The turnout in the fifth phase was 4.56% more than the last assembly elections and 0.59% more than the last Lok Sabha elections in the region. In all 1,55,36,660 voters turned out to seal the fate of 827 candidates including 58 women candidates in the ballot box in the last leg of voting in the nine districts nine districts — Araria, Darbhanga, Katihar, Kishanganj, Madhepura, Madhubani, Purnia, Saharsa and Supaul.
Katihar was followed by Kishangaj that registered 64.39% voters’ turnout which was 5.41% more than the voting percentage in the 2010 assembly elections and 0.5% more than the turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the district. Among the four assembly constituencies in the district, the highest voters’ turnout (67.27%) was recorded at Thakurganj which though was less than the 69.40% polling figures registered in the assembly segment in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. However, the per centage voting this time in Thakurganj, where Naushad Alam,who had won last time on Lok Janshakti Party ticket, is seeking re-election as a Janata Dal (United) candidate this time and is pitted against LJP’s Gopal Kumar Agrawal and Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)’s Punam Devi among others.
Purnea district with 62.95% turnout was the third in the line and the comparative jump in the turnout in the district was 2.75% more than the 2010 assembly elections turnount and 0.69% more than 2014 Lok Sabha elections turnout in the district. Here, at least one assembly constituency, Baisi, registered lesser voters’ turnout than what was registered here during the 2010 assembly as well as 2014 Lok Sabha elections. From here, RJD”s sitting MLA Abdus Subhan is pitted against the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party’s Azizur Rahman and Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)’s Syed Ruknuddin Ahmad, who had contested as a JD(U) candidate in the 2014 byelection from here. It may be mentioned that in 2010 assembly elections though, the BJP’s Santosh Kushwaha had won from Baisi but he resigned from the BJP and was the JD (U)’s candidate for the Purnia Lok Sabha seat in the last general parliamentary elections in 2014.
Besides, in two other assembly constituencies in Purnea district – Amour and Rupauli – saw lesser turnout than what was registered in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in these assembly segments. However, the turnout at both these constituencies was more than the 2010 figures.
An average 62% turnout was registered in the six assembly segments of Araria district. This was 1.70% more than the 2010 figures and 1.66% more than the 2014 figures in the district. Except for Forbesganj assembly constituency that saw a dip in the turnout figures as compared to the turnout in the segment during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, all other assembly constituencies in the districtsaw a larger per centage of voters’ turnout than that in 2010 as well as 2014.
Supaul district, with five assembly constituencies saw 58.60% voters’ turnout and was the among the three districts in the fifth phase of polling that saw a dip in the voters’ turnout from both the 2010 as well as 2014 figures. The other two districts being Madhepura and Saharsa.
In the 2010 assembly elections Supaul had registered 60.16% voters’ turnout while in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the average voters’ turnout in its five assembly segments was 62.58%.
Similarly the voters’ turnout in Madhepura was 57.84% this year as against 59.44% in 2010 and 60.76% in 2014, while in Saharsa, it was 50.78% in 2015 as against 53.04% in 2010 and 56.24% in 2014.
In all Katihar (which recorded the highest voters’ turnout in fifth round), Madhepura, Saharsa, and Supaul were the four districts in the fifth phase, where the voting per centage was less this time than in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Madhubani registered 55.87% turnout and Darbhanga, 58.27%, turnout in the final phase.
What is significant is that the districts with high voters’ turnout have large Muslim population. While Kishanganj bordering Bangladesh has an overwhelming 67.98 per cent Muslim population, Araria and Katihar have well over 40 per cent Muslim population (42.98% and 44.47% respectively). Purnea has nearly 40 per cent Muslim population.
Like in the third and fourth round, the Bharatiya Janata Party has much in the stake in the fifth round as well where it is contesting 38 of the 57 seats in the region, thus leaving only 19 seats for its other alliance partners. In the 2010 assembly elections, it had won the largest number of seats (23) in these districts . the JD(U), the BJP’s alliance partner then, had won 20 seats in the region in 2010 while the RJD had own just 8 and the Congress, 3, seats in the region. Howeverafter the JD(U)-BJP alliance was broken, the BJP had lost three Lok Sabha seats in Seemanchal – Araria, Purnea and Katihar — in 2014 general elections.
Meanwhile the boycott of elections in certain constituencies continued in the fifth phase as well with voters boycotting polling at two polling centres – Babubarhi in Madhubani district and Manihar (ST) in Katihar district. It may be mentioned that in the first phase of polling, voters had boycotted polling at nine polling centres, and in the second phase, at 13 centres. In the third phase voters had boycotted polling at four polling centres, and in the fourth phase, at seven polling centres. However a hallmark of the elections in the state, which was once notorious for poll-violence and booth capturing, was that it remained peaceful in all phases this time thanks to the elaborate measures and security arrangements by the Election Commission. While five drones/helicopters had continuously kept vigil over the naxal hit regions of the state, the Election Commission had set up 65,349 control unit, and even an Android mobile application was developed to monitor model code of conduct and cases of expenditure violation besides other measures to ensure peaceful elections.
Overall, the average voters’ turnout of 56.80% in all the five phases was registered which was 4.15% more than the turnout percentage in the 2010 assembly elections in the state that had seen 52.65% voting. The voters’ turnout this time was also 1.42% higher than the turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the state.
Among the 38 districts of Bihar, Katihar registered the highest 67.27 percentage of voters’ turnout in 2015, followed by Kishanganj (64.39%) and Purnea (62.95%). The other districts that registered over 60% turnout were West Champaran (62.76%), Araria (62%), and Muzaffarpur (61.02%).
The turnout in the fifth phase was 4.56% more than the last assembly elections and 0.59% more than the last Lok Sabha elections in the region. In all 1,55,36,660 voters turned out to seal the fate of 827 candidates including 58 women candidates in the ballot box in the last leg of voting in the nine districts nine districts — Araria, Darbhanga, Katihar, Kishanganj, Madhepura, Madhubani, Purnia, Saharsa and Supaul.
Women’s Participation in the Fifth Phase
An achievement was the continued large turnout of female voters in all the phases. Surpassing the 60.40% women’s turnout that was registered in the fourth phase, the fifth phase saw a remarkable 63.60% voting by women voters. They outnumbered the men voters by 7.55% in the fifth round. Much is being attributed to the mass exodus of men from their homeland in search of jobs outside the state to their lesser turnout this time. In the first phase, 59.5 per cent women had voted as against 54.5 per cent men. In the second phase 57.5% women had turned out to vote as against 52.5% men. In the third phase 54% women cast their votes as against 52.50% men while in the fourth phase, only 54.20% men had turned out to vote.Large Turnout in Muslim Dominated Districts
Among the nine districts, Katihar district recorded the highest 67.27% voter turnout in the fifth phase. This was 4.94% more than the voters’turnout registered in the 2010 assembly elections in the district. However the per centage of voters dipped by 0.65% as compared to the 67.92% turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the district. The highest turnout among the seven assembly constituencies that fall in the district was 72.76% in Barari assembly constituency where the sitting Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Bibhash Chandra Chaudhary is pitted against Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Neeraj Kumar. Yet another assembly constituency in the district, Korha (SC) saw over 70 per cent voters’ turnout (72.26%) where the sitting BJP MLA Mahesh Paswan is pitted against Punam Paswan of the Congress among others. Incidentally, no other assembly constituency that went to poll in the fifth phase witnessed over 70% voting except the above two and both assembly segments had seen over 70% turnout even in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.Katihar was followed by Kishangaj that registered 64.39% voters’ turnout which was 5.41% more than the voting percentage in the 2010 assembly elections and 0.5% more than the turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the district. Among the four assembly constituencies in the district, the highest voters’ turnout (67.27%) was recorded at Thakurganj which though was less than the 69.40% polling figures registered in the assembly segment in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. However, the per centage voting this time in Thakurganj, where Naushad Alam,who had won last time on Lok Janshakti Party ticket, is seeking re-election as a Janata Dal (United) candidate this time and is pitted against LJP’s Gopal Kumar Agrawal and Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)’s Punam Devi among others.
Purnea district with 62.95% turnout was the third in the line and the comparative jump in the turnout in the district was 2.75% more than the 2010 assembly elections turnount and 0.69% more than 2014 Lok Sabha elections turnout in the district. Here, at least one assembly constituency, Baisi, registered lesser voters’ turnout than what was registered here during the 2010 assembly as well as 2014 Lok Sabha elections. From here, RJD”s sitting MLA Abdus Subhan is pitted against the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party’s Azizur Rahman and Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)’s Syed Ruknuddin Ahmad, who had contested as a JD(U) candidate in the 2014 byelection from here. It may be mentioned that in 2010 assembly elections though, the BJP’s Santosh Kushwaha had won from Baisi but he resigned from the BJP and was the JD (U)’s candidate for the Purnia Lok Sabha seat in the last general parliamentary elections in 2014.
Besides, in two other assembly constituencies in Purnea district – Amour and Rupauli – saw lesser turnout than what was registered in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in these assembly segments. However, the turnout at both these constituencies was more than the 2010 figures.
An average 62% turnout was registered in the six assembly segments of Araria district. This was 1.70% more than the 2010 figures and 1.66% more than the 2014 figures in the district. Except for Forbesganj assembly constituency that saw a dip in the turnout figures as compared to the turnout in the segment during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, all other assembly constituencies in the districtsaw a larger per centage of voters’ turnout than that in 2010 as well as 2014.
Supaul district, with five assembly constituencies saw 58.60% voters’ turnout and was the among the three districts in the fifth phase of polling that saw a dip in the voters’ turnout from both the 2010 as well as 2014 figures. The other two districts being Madhepura and Saharsa.
In the 2010 assembly elections Supaul had registered 60.16% voters’ turnout while in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the average voters’ turnout in its five assembly segments was 62.58%.
Similarly the voters’ turnout in Madhepura was 57.84% this year as against 59.44% in 2010 and 60.76% in 2014, while in Saharsa, it was 50.78% in 2015 as against 53.04% in 2010 and 56.24% in 2014.
In all Katihar (which recorded the highest voters’ turnout in fifth round), Madhepura, Saharsa, and Supaul were the four districts in the fifth phase, where the voting per centage was less this time than in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Madhubani registered 55.87% turnout and Darbhanga, 58.27%, turnout in the final phase.
What is significant is that the districts with high voters’ turnout have large Muslim population. While Kishanganj bordering Bangladesh has an overwhelming 67.98 per cent Muslim population, Araria and Katihar have well over 40 per cent Muslim population (42.98% and 44.47% respectively). Purnea has nearly 40 per cent Muslim population.
Like in the third and fourth round, the Bharatiya Janata Party has much in the stake in the fifth round as well where it is contesting 38 of the 57 seats in the region, thus leaving only 19 seats for its other alliance partners. In the 2010 assembly elections, it had won the largest number of seats (23) in these districts . the JD(U), the BJP’s alliance partner then, had won 20 seats in the region in 2010 while the RJD had own just 8 and the Congress, 3, seats in the region. Howeverafter the JD(U)-BJP alliance was broken, the BJP had lost three Lok Sabha seats in Seemanchal – Araria, Purnea and Katihar — in 2014 general elections.
Meanwhile the boycott of elections in certain constituencies continued in the fifth phase as well with voters boycotting polling at two polling centres – Babubarhi in Madhubani district and Manihar (ST) in Katihar district. It may be mentioned that in the first phase of polling, voters had boycotted polling at nine polling centres, and in the second phase, at 13 centres. In the third phase voters had boycotted polling at four polling centres, and in the fourth phase, at seven polling centres. However a hallmark of the elections in the state, which was once notorious for poll-violence and booth capturing, was that it remained peaceful in all phases this time thanks to the elaborate measures and security arrangements by the Election Commission. While five drones/helicopters had continuously kept vigil over the naxal hit regions of the state, the Election Commission had set up 65,349 control unit, and even an Android mobile application was developed to monitor model code of conduct and cases of expenditure violation besides other measures to ensure peaceful elections.
Overall, the average voters’ turnout of 56.80% in all the five phases was registered which was 4.15% more than the turnout percentage in the 2010 assembly elections in the state that had seen 52.65% voting. The voters’ turnout this time was also 1.42% higher than the turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in the state.
Among the 38 districts of Bihar, Katihar registered the highest 67.27 percentage of voters’ turnout in 2015, followed by Kishanganj (64.39%) and Purnea (62.95%). The other districts that registered over 60% turnout were West Champaran (62.76%), Araria (62%), and Muzaffarpur (61.02%).
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