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142. Katihar

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Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-KATIHAR

RJD 57.8%won by 23.7%BJP 34.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 23.7%.

  • RJD vote shareRJD went from 0.0% to 57.8% of the vote here (+57.8%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.8% of the vote between them, up from 66.9% — 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
1,19,512
Margin
28,371
23.74%

Candidates

14 contested · winner RJD
  1. 1RAM PRAKASH MAHTORashtriya Janata Dal · RJD69,03057.8%
  2. 2JAGBANDHU ADHIKARIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,65934.0%
  3. 3PARAS NATH KESHRINationalist Congress Party · NCP3,8933.3%
  4. 4BANINATH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC1,8331.5%
  5. 5PRITI KUMARI JHACommunist Party of India · CPI9980.8%
  6. 6BHIMLAL URAONBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8160.7%
  7. 7RAJ KUMAR GUPTASamajwadi Party · SP7730.6%
  8. 8GANESH SHARMAIndependent · IND4560.4%
  9. 9RAKIB KHANIndependent · IND2190.2%
  10. 10KAMESHWAR PRASAD SINHABJCR · BJCR2050.2%
  11. 11NIRMALA RANI DASBMF · BMF1860.2%
  12. 12UMESHWAR PRASAD SINGHShiv Sena · SHS1830.2%
  13. 13VIJAY SINGHJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1690.1%
  14. 14VIPIN KUMAR THAKURIndependent · IND920.1%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
RJDflipped
RJD–BJP swing
+61.2%
RJD share
0.0% → 57.8%
BJP share
37.5% → 34.0%
Turnout
— → —
141. Barari143. Kadwa
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