Constituency
149. Barhait
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-BARHAIT
JMM 67.6%won by 38.7%INC 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedJharkhand Mukti Morcha held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.6% to 38.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.4% of the vote between them, up from 87.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatJharkhand Mukti Morcha won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
98,572
Margin
38,126
38.68%
Candidates
9 contested · winner JMM- 1HEMLAL MURMUJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM66,59967.6%
- 2LOURENS HANSDAIndian National Congress · INC28,47328.9%
- 3MASIH SORENBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,8071.8%
- 4GYAN DEO TUDURashtriya Janata Dal · RJD5240.5%
- 5JOSEPH SORENIndependent · IND4250.4%
- 6BUDHRAY MURMUSamajwadi Party · SP3960.4%
- 7MOSAI KISKUIndependent · IND1750.2%
- 8LAURANCE SORENIndependent · IND1050.1%
- 9HABIL MARANDIIndependent · IND680.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JMM
- Winner now
- JMM
- JMM–INC swing
- +32.0%
- JMM share
- 46.8% → 67.6%
- INC share
- 40.2% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- — → —