Women voters wait in a queue to cast votes at a polling station during the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections.
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New Delhi: Women might have driven Nitish Kumar and his allies once again to power in Bihar but election data shows that AIMIM won three out of five Assembly seats that recorded the highest women turnout while BJP won all the five seats where women turnout was the lowest.
Statistics also showed that BJP won three – Gopalganj, Purnia and Motihari – of the five seats that saw maximum number of deletion of voters during the contentious Special Intensive Revision (SIR) while BJP and LJP(RV) won two each seats out of five that had minimum deletions.
While its lone woman candidate Nasima Khatoon lost in the Nawada seat, AIMIM could boast of winning three of the five seats that had recorded the highest women polling percentage while BJP and JD(U) won the rest.
Thakurganj, where the highest women turnout of 90.27% was recorded, JD(U) defeated its nearest AIMIM nominee, while BJP’s Nisha Singh emerged winner in Pranpur, where there was 88.99% women turnout. Singh is the only woman to win from the seats that recorded the highest women turnout.
AIMIM nominees won from Kochadhaman (89.22%), Baisi (88.89%) and Amour (88.09%).
In five seats where the female turnout was at the lowest, BJP won all the seats – Kumhrar (39.13%), Bankipur (39.86%), Digha (41.46%), Biharsharif (5483%) and Bhagalpur (55.42%).
BJP with two seats and JD(U), LJP(RV) and Congress with one each seat shared the constituencies where there was record voting by men. Incidentally, none of the five seats saw over 80% of male turnout while the constituencies with highest women turnout was bordering 90%.
Purnia (BJP) recorded 79.66% male turnout while Barari (JD-U) had 78.67%, Kasba (LJP-RV) 78.02%, Korha (BJP) 77.77% and Manihari (Congress) 76.97% voting.
BJP won three – Kumhrar, Bankipur and Digha – out of five seats where male voter turnout was the lowest while LJP(RV) won Darauli and JD(U) bagged Ziradei.
Gopalganj seat, which had the highest number of 56,793 deletions during SIR, followed by Purnia with 50,767 deletions and Motihari with 49,747 deletions were bagged by the BJP. JD(U) won Kuchaikote (43,226 deletions) and Congress retained Kishanganj despite 42,940 votes.
In seats where there were minimum deletions during SIR, BJP won Darbhanga (2,859) and Bettiah (6,076) while LJP(RV) bagged Dehri (6,219) and Mahua (6,302). Congress won Chanpatia where there were 6,031 deletions, the second lowest in the state.