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78. Madhubani

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Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-MADHUBANI

BJP 39.0%won by 14.0%RJD 25.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 14.0%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 18.7% to 39.0% of the vote here (+20.3%).
  • New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 25.0% — it did not contest here in 1995.

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
1,29,373
Margin
18,076
13.97%

Candidates

14 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1RAMDEO MAHTOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP50,47139.0%
  2. 2RAJ KUMAR MAHSETHRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD32,39525.0%
  3. 3PREM CHANDRA MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC13,70210.6%
  4. 4NAYAZ AHMADIndependent · IND12,6789.8%
  5. 5HEMCHANDRA JHACommunist Party of India · CPI7,1955.6%
  6. 6AMANULLAH KHANNationalist Congress Party · NCP4,3873.4%
  7. 7ABHAYANAND JHAIndependent · IND2,2521.7%
  8. 8BISHNU KUMAR RAUTIndependent · IND1,6511.3%
  9. 9BINODA NAND JHABJCR · BJCR1,5861.2%
  10. 10MANOJ KUMAR MAHTOBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,3651.1%
  11. 11KALAR YADAVKisan Samaj Party (S) · KSP7560.6%
  12. 12RAJANI BALA AGRABALAJBP · AJBP4060.3%
  13. 13GUPTA YADAVIndependent · IND3540.3%
  14. 14JATAN LAL MAHTOApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD1750.1%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
JD
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–RJD swing
−4.7%
BJP share
18.7% → 39.0%
RJD share
0.0% → 25.0%
Turnout
— → —
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