Constituency
166. Colgong
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-COLGONG
INC 46.1%won by 18.6%RJD 27.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.8% to 46.1% of the vote here (+8.3%).
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 27.5% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.6% between them, down from 81.4% — 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
1,37,901
Margin
25,635
18.59%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1SADANAND SINGHIndian National Congress · INC63,57946.1%
- 2MAHESH PRASAD MANDALRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD37,94427.5%
- 3AJAY MANDALIndependent · IND16,29311.8%
- 4DEEPAK SINGHBPSP · BPSP13,1379.5%
- 5MAHANTH KUMAR RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2641.6%
- 6KULDEEP MANDALIndependent · IND2,0061.5%
- 7SURESH PASWANIndependent · IND1,0070.7%
- 8YOGENDRA PRA. NISHADSamajwadi Party · SP7450.5%
- 9RAMBARAN SINGHHKMP · HKMP5930.4%
- 10GOVIND MANDALNationalist Congress Party · NCP3330.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–RJD swing
- −19.2%
- INC share
- 37.8% → 46.1%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 27.5%
- Turnout
- — → —