Constituency
106. Barauni
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-BARAUNI
CPI 38.0%won by 5.2%BJP 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.7% to 5.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,20,389
Margin
6,285
5.22%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1RAJENDRA PD. SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI45,77238.0%
- 2RAM LAKHAN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP39,48732.8%
- 3DINESH PD. SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM23,64119.6%
- 4KAMLA DEVIIndian National Congress · INC9,4777.9%
- 5MINHAZALBJCR · BJCR9760.8%
- 6RAM CHANDRA PASWANIndependent · IND6080.5%
- 7RAM SUNDER SINGHNationalist Congress Party · NCP4280.4%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BJP swing
- −20.5%
- CPI share
- 47.7% → 38.0%
- BJP share
- 22.0% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- — → —