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4. Shikarpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-SHIKARPUR

BJP 37.0%won by 13.9%NCP 23.1%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 13.9%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 20.8% to 37.0% of the vote here (+16.3%).
  • New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 23.1% — it did not contest here in 1995.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 60.1% of the vote between them, up from 54.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

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
95,565
Margin
13,308
13.93%

Candidates

16 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1BHAGIRATHI DEVIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP35,37737.0%
  2. 2SUBODH KUMARNationalist Congress Party · NCP22,06923.1%
  3. 3MATHURA RAMIndian National Congress · INC10,79411.3%
  4. 4OM PRAKASH TOOFANIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD10,27410.8%
  5. 5MANTI RAMIndependent · IND3,3443.5%
  6. 6SITARAM PRASADIndependent · IND3,1813.3%
  7. 7KEDAR RAMCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,9983.1%
  8. 8THAKUR RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI2,0072.1%
  9. 9MISHRI RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,8101.9%
  10. 10PRABHU BAITHAIndependent · IND1,6091.7%
  11. 11SURESH RAMIndependent · IND5410.6%
  12. 12AJAY KUMARIndependent · IND4340.5%
  13. 13RISHI RAMIndependent · IND4070.4%
  14. 14MOTILAL PASWANIndependent · IND3230.3%
  15. 15BISHUN DYAL BAITHARashtriya Lok Dal · RLD2100.2%
  16. 16BINOD PASWANBHJVP · BHJVP1870.2%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
JD
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–NCP swing
−6.8%
BJP share
20.8% → 37.0%
NCP share
0.0% → 23.1%
Turnout
— → —
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