Constituency
105. Begusarai
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-BEGUSARAI
BJP 41.9%won by 6.8%CPI 35.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 6.8%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 13.4% to 41.9% of the vote here (+28.4%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 35.1% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.9% of the vote between them, up from 69.0% — 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
1,23,022
Margin
8,350
6.79%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1BHOLA PD. SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP51,50241.9%
- 2KAMLI MAHTOCommunist Party of India · CPI43,15235.1%
- 3RAJENDRA PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,95712.2%
- 4AMRENDRA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC4,5503.7%
- 5ATAUR RAHMANNationalist Congress Party · NCP3,3692.7%
- 6DHRUVA KUMARIndependent · IND2,4572.0%
- 7LAKSHMI SAHUIndependent · IND1,5421.3%
- 8ARVIND KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7540.6%
- 9RANI SINGHKMBP · KMBP4870.4%
- 10MANOJ KUMARAJBP · AJBP2520.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–CPI swing
- −6.7%
- BJP share
- 13.4% → 41.9%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 35.1%
- Turnout
- — → —