Constituency
134. Thakurganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-THAKURGANJ
INC 31.8%won by 5.2%IND 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 22.7% to 31.8% of the vote here (+9.0%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 26.6% — it polled just 0.5% in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 58.3% of the vote between them, up from 52.2% — 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
1,28,652
Margin
6,710
5.22%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1DR. MD. JAWAIDIndian National Congress · INC40,87531.8%
- 2TARACHAND DHANUKAIndependent · IND34,16526.6%
- 3SIKANDAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,67022.3%
- 4MOHAMAD SULAIMANRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD13,31710.4%
- 5MOKUL SINGHIndependent · IND3,0722.4%
- 6MOHAN LAL SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP2,2221.7%
- 7PRAVEEN KUMAR PASWANIndependent · IND1,5231.2%
- 8ABDUL GHANIIndependent · IND1,2741.0%
- 9FAROOQUE AZAMIndependent · IND1,2561.0%
- 10MOTI SORAINBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6900.5%
- 11MD. MANJERNationalist Congress Party · NCP6040.5%
- 12UPENDRA NATH SINGHIndependent · IND5990.5%
- 13MANOJ CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND3850.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −17.0%
- INC share
- 22.7% → 31.8%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- — → —