Constituency
171. Sultanganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1995
BR-SULTANGANJ
JD 36.3%won by 15.2%SAP 21.1%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.4% to 15.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSamajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) finished second with 21.1% — it did not contest here in 1990.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.5% between them, down from 69.4% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,25,330
Margin
19,058
15.21%
Candidates
22 contested · winner JD- 1FANINDRA CHOUDHARYJanata Dal · JD45,53836.3%
- 2GANESH PASWANSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP26,48021.1%
- 3AMBIKA PRASADIndian National Congress · INC23,51318.8%
- 4SARASWATI KUMARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,9159.5%
- 5DILIP PASWANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,1984.9%
- 6RAGHO CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND3,0522.4%
- 7YOGENDRA PASWANBhartiya Panchsheel Party · BPP2,9682.4%
- 8VISHNU DEO RAMIndependent · IND1,3971.1%
- 9VIJAY BHUSAN CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND8160.7%
- 10RAMANUJ KUMAR DASSamajwadi Party · SP6950.6%
- 11RASIK LAL MANJHIIndependent · IND5620.4%
- 12VINDHWASINI DEVISJPR · SJPR2960.2%
- 13UMESH PASWANIndependent · IND2680.2%
- 14GHANSHYAM DASIndependent · IND2500.2%
- 15SURENDRA RAJAKIndependent · IND2460.2%
- 16RANA MANINDRA RAJNISHIndependent · IND2340.2%
- 17JAWAHAR PASWANIndependent · IND2050.2%
- 18LUKHDEO PASWANIndependent · IND1860.1%
- 19RAM SWARUP DASIndependent · IND1760.1%
- 20OM PRAKASH PASWANIndependent · IND1300.1%
- 21ANIRUDH HARIJANIndependent · IND1150.1%
- 22ANIRUDH MANJHIIndependent · IND900.1%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–SAP swing
- −24.2%
- JD share
- 39.4% → 36.3%
- SAP share
- 0.0% → 21.1%
- Turnout
- — → —