Constituency
159. Jarmundi
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-JARMUNDI
BJP 23.4%won by 4.9%BSP 18.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: JMMS (JMMS) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.9%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 17.3% to 23.4% of the vote here (+6.2%).
- New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 18.5% — it polled just 1.3% in 1995.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 41.9% between them, down from 56.0% — 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
1,02,731
Margin
5,073
4.94%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1DVENDRA KUWARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,08223.4%
- 2HARINARAYAN ROYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP19,00918.5%
- 3VARUN KUMARJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM15,34414.9%
- 4GOPAL CHANDRA ROYIndian National Congress · INC14,92014.5%
- 5CHANDRA SHEKHAR YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD13,53713.2%
- 6JAWAHAR PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND12,90312.6%
- 7RAMJIWAN SINGHIndependent · IND1,0671.0%
- 8BALRAM MANDALNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,0191.0%
- 9MAHENDRA MAHTOAJBP · AJBP4260.4%
- 10MANOJ KUMAR SINHAIndependent · IND4240.4%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JMMS
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BSP swing
- −11.1%
- BJP share
- 17.3% → 23.4%
- BSP share
- 1.3% → 18.5%
- Turnout
- — → —