Constituency
27. Basantpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-BASANTPUR
BJP 49.1%won by 0.8%RJD 48.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 0.8%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 36.7% to 49.1% of the vote here (+12.4%).
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 48.4% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.5% of the vote between them, up from 83.4% — 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
1,36,435
Margin
1,060
0.78%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1SATYADEO PD. SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP67,05249.1%
- 2MANIK CHAND ROYRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD65,99248.4%
- 3KAMALDEO NA. SUKLAIndian National Congress · INC2,0081.5%
- 4SHEKH IZHARRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD5490.4%
- 5SATYADEO PD. SINGHIndependent · IND3550.3%
- 6MADAN YADAVNationalist Congress Party · NCP3060.2%
- 7RAMAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND1730.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–RJD swing
- −36.0%
- BJP share
- 36.7% → 49.1%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 48.4%
- Turnout
- — → —