Constituency
18. Kesaria
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-KESARIA
SAP 42.7%won by 26.8%KSP 15.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP), which now leads by 26.8%.
- SAP vote shareSAP went from 14.0% to 42.7% of the vote here (+28.7%).
- New challengerKisan Samaj Party (S) (KSP) finished second with 15.9% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.6% between them, down from 77.7% — 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
1,09,420
Margin
29,319
26.79%
Candidates
16 contested · winner SAP- 1OBAIDULLAHSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP46,74342.7%
- 2YAMUNA YADAVKisan Samaj Party (S) · KSP17,42415.9%
- 3RAJANDRA RAIIndependent · IND11,88410.9%
- 4LAL BABU SAHANICommunist Party of India · CPI10,6659.7%
- 5RAJESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND4,3974.0%
- 6RAMAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND3,4633.2%
- 7CHANDRESHWAR PRASAD SINGHSJPR · SJPR3,4223.1%
- 8BEERENDRA KUMAR SINHABPSP · BPSP2,9292.7%
- 9SURESH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC2,2852.1%
- 10SUNIL KUMAR DUBEYIndependent · IND1,7751.6%
- 11SHAMBHU SAHIndependent · IND1,0621.0%
- 12RAJA RAM PRASADNationalist Congress Party · NCP8620.8%
- 13SURESH PRASAD YADAVBHJC · BHJC8150.7%
- 14VIJAY NA. SINGHIndependent · IND7630.7%
- 15JAGADISH RAMIndependent · IND6530.6%
- 16SANJAY KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2780.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- SAPflipped
- SAP–KSP swing
- +12.7%
- SAP share
- 14.0% → 42.7%
- KSP share
- 0.0% → 15.9%
- Turnout
- — → —