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Constituency

72. Pupri

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Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-PUPRI

RJD 44.2%won by 0.9%JDU 43.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 0.9%.

  • RJD vote shareRJD went from 0.0% to 44.2% of the vote here (+44.2%).
  • New challengerJanata Dal (United) (JDU) finished second with 43.4% — it did not contest here in 1995.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.6% of the vote between them, up from 79.4% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,26,463
Margin
1,079
0.85%

Candidates

8 contested · winner RJD
  1. 1SITA RAM YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD55,90744.2%
  2. 2HABIB.A. BIRARIJanata Dal (United) · JDU54,82843.4%
  3. 3RAM BRIKSH CHAUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC12,2559.7%
  4. 4SADHU SHARAN DASCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,6811.3%
  5. 5ASHOK KUMARBJCR · BJCR6050.5%
  6. 6RAM BRIKSH CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND5310.4%
  7. 7DR. SURENDRA PD. PATELNationalist Congress Party · NCP4870.4%
  8. 8SAMUA PASWANIndependent · IND1690.1%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
JD
Winner now
RJDflipped
RJD–JDU swing
+0.9%
RJD share
0.0% → 44.2%
JDU share
0.0% → 43.4%
Turnout
— → —
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