Kishanganj 2020
Ever heard of the Kishanganj Vidhan Sabha seat? Probably not. But hey, let’s shed some light on the names vying for your vote in the Bihar Legislature election 2020. I get it; politics isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but consider this your crash course in “Know Your Choice!” These nuggets are just bits and pieces from my internet scavenger hunt. I’m just here to spark your political curiosity! 🕵️♀️🗂️
Bihar Election 2020
Political parties
The main parties in Bihar relevant to Kishanganj (or at least those I will be considering here) are:
- Indian National Congress (INC): is headed by Madan Mohan Jha in Bihar.
- Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is headed by Sanjay Jaiswal in Bihar.
- Janta Dal (United) (JD(U)) is headed by CM Nitish Kumar.
- All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Akhtarul Iman is said to be the president of AIMIM, which recently got its first seat in Bihar from Kishanganj.
54 Kishanganj Vidhan Sabha
Candidates
- MD. Qamrul Hoda (AIMIM). He won the constituency in 2019 bye-election when the sitting Congress MLA won the MP seat in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
- Ijaharul Husain (INC). After the backlash in 2019, when Congress decided to give its ticket to the candidate from the family and lost badly, the party has decided to give it to a new face, a party worker.
- Sweety Singh (BJP): 3 times securing 2nd position, she has an ever-increasing vote per cent and has a good chance of being first this time.
- Tasiruddin (Indp): One of the independent candidate with a relatively poor performance in the recent election.
Below are the details of these major candidates. These data are largely taken from the affidavit submitted by them for contesting past state elections. These affidavit though is a good source of information but at times these are poorly filled.
I couldn't add a table here, so here’s their overall data
Immovable assets include the market value of all the assets inherited.
Candidates expenditure is recorded according to the Election Commission’s Guidelines. These are put in place to reduce the bias created because of the money power of the candidates. Candidates are required to maintain a register of the same and this register is compared with a shadow register maintained by the officials. This data is sourced from the same. Note that Qamrul Hoda was absent for the first term and presented a common report in the 2nd term. (However absent and not answering in a requested period is considered really bad). Third term’s report is yet to be uploaded.
Individual profile
Except for the new Congress face, the 3 of them have been contesting state elections. the data below is taken from the affidavit of the candidates from their past elections and the election results available in the Election Commission Website.
Note that all financial data here is the sum of self, spouse and dependents.
Past elections in Kishanganj
Note that 0 indicates that the party did not have a candidate under its flags, probably because of a coalition.
Below is the Turnout (the count of people who actually voted) and Electors (the total number of voters registered in the area).
Note that the dip in 2010 for Vidhan Sabha can be associated with the delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008
Source
- The cover image is taken from Wikipedia.
- Kishanganj Vidhan Sabha Map is taken from Election Commission’s records.
- The tables are generated by me using the data made available by the Election Commission and Kishanganj’s page.
https://eci.gov.in/statistical-report/statistical-reports/
- Some of the data is also sourced from various Wikipedia articles.
~ Happy Voting!
