Constituency
152. Maheshpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-MAHESHPUR
BJP 25.4%won by 4.9%JMM 20.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.9%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 14.7% to 25.4% of the vote here (+10.7%).
- New challengerJharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished second with 20.5% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 45.9% between them, down from 59.8% — the field split more ways.
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
83,270
Margin
4,095
4.92%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1DEVIDHAN BESRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP21,14525.4%
- 2SUFAL MARANDIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM17,05020.5%
- 3NAVINLAL SORENIndian National Congress · INC16,33619.6%
- 4DURGA MARANDIIndependent · IND12,37814.9%
- 5JYOTIN SORENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM7,3938.9%
- 6MISTRY SORENIndependent · IND4,1905.0%
- 7KANDNA HEMBROMIndependent · IND2,0642.5%
- 8CHOTELAL SORENIndependent · IND1,2831.5%
- 9KALIDAS MURMUNationalist Congress Party · NCP6960.8%
- 10PROMODINI HEMBROMIndependent · IND2810.3%
- 11DAVID TUDUIndependent · IND2390.3%
- 12GOPAL MURMUIndependent · IND2150.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–JMM swing
- −9.8%
- BJP share
- 14.7% → 25.4%
- JMM share
- 0.0% → 20.5%
- Turnout
- — → —