Constituency
44. Sonepur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-SONEPUR
BJP 48.9%won by 1.5%RJD 47.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 1.5%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 14.6% to 48.9% of the vote here (+34.3%).
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 47.3% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.2% of the vote between them, up from 60.7% — 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
1,48,376
Margin
2,290
1.54%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1VINAY KUMAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP72,50248.9%
- 2PROF. RAMANUJ PRASADRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD70,21247.3%
- 3ASHOK SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,6212.4%
- 4KARMU YADAVIndian National Congress · INC8860.6%
- 5ATUL KUMAR SINGHBJCR · BJCR4420.3%
- 6VAKIL SINGHIndependent · IND3730.3%
- 7RAJ KUMAR RAIIndependent · IND2270.2%
- 8RAM JANAM RAIIndependent · IND640.0%
- 9HARENDRA RAMIndependent · IND490.0%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–RJD swing
- −13.1%
- BJP share
- 14.6% → 48.9%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 47.3%
- Turnout
- — → —