Constituency
69. Majorganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-MAJORGANJ
BJP 58.7%won by 26.9%RJD 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 26.9%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 31.1% to 58.7% of the vote here (+27.6%).
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.5% of the vote between them, up from 76.9% — 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
1,14,938
Margin
30,972
26.95%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1GAURI SHANKAR NAGDANSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP67,52458.7%
- 2DINKAR RAMRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD36,55231.8%
- 3MAHESH RAMIndian National Congress · INC6,1345.3%
- 4GIRISH NANDAN RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,8002.4%
- 5MAHENDRA PASWANIndependent · IND7990.7%
- 6RAM LOCHAN BAITHANationalist Congress Party · NCP7770.7%
- 7CHANDRA DEV MANJHIIndependent · IND3020.3%
- 8MAUJE LAL RAMIndependent · IND500.0%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–RJD swing
- −4.2%
- BJP share
- 31.1% → 58.7%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —