Constituency
158. Deoghar
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-DEOGHAR
RJD 41.1%won by 17.7%JDU 23.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 17.7%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 0.0% to 41.1% of the vote here (+41.1%).
- New challengerJanata Dal (United) (JDU) finished second with 23.3% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 64.4% of the vote between them, up from 56.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,17,405
Margin
20,818
17.73%
Candidates
9 contested · winner RJD- 1SURESH PASWANRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD48,21641.1%
- 2SHANKAR PASWANJanata Dal (United) · JDU27,39823.3%
- 3KAMESHWAR NATH DASIndian National Congress · INC26,36222.5%
- 4RAGHUNATH DASJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM7,7576.6%
- 5RAMDEO PRASAD DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,1652.7%
- 6DHARMRAJ KUMARIndependent · IND2,4892.1%
- 7SANJAY KUMARNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,2281.0%
- 8KEDAN NATH DASIndependent · IND4280.4%
- 9RAVI KANT DASNDPF · NDPF3620.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–JDU swing
- +17.7%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 41.1%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 23.3%
- Turnout
- — → —