Constituency
162. Poraiyahat
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-PORAIYAHAT
BJP 43.9%won by 14.9%JMM 29.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: JMMS (JMMS) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 14.9%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 19.4% to 43.9% of the vote here (+24.5%).
- New challengerJharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished second with 29.0% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.0% of the vote between them, up from 57.4% — 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
1,23,567
Margin
18,413
14.90%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1PRADEEP YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP54,28743.9%
- 2PRASANT MANDALJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM35,87429.0%
- 3RAJESH KUMAR SAHIndian National Congress · INC14,08311.4%
- 4PHANI BHUSHAN YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD7,9226.4%
- 5SURAJ MANDALSamajwadi Party · SP5,1584.2%
- 6HEM KANT YADAVCommunist Party of India · CPI3,0612.5%
- 7ANJANI DEVIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,7001.4%
- 8DEOLAL HEMRAMIndependent · IND4690.4%
- 9QYUM ANSARIBJCR · BJCR4300.3%
- 10KANCHAN RAIIndependent · IND3350.3%
- 11SURENDRA MURMUIndependent · IND1270.1%
- 12PRIYANATH PATHAKIndependent · IND1210.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JMMS
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–JMM swing
- −4.5%
- BJP share
- 19.4% → 43.9%
- JMM share
- 0.0% → 29.0%
- Turnout
- — → —