Constituency
171. Sultanganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-SULTANGANJ
SAP 53.5%won by 23.8%RJD 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP), which now leads by 23.8%.
- SAP vote shareSAP went from 21.1% to 53.5% of the vote here (+32.4%).
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 29.7% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.2% of the vote between them, up from 57.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,32,294
Margin
31,519
23.82%
Candidates
7 contested · winner SAP- 1GANESH PASWANSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP70,77153.5%
- 2PHANINDRA CHOUDHARYRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD39,25229.7%
- 3UMESH CHANDRA DASIndian National Congress · INC11,1698.4%
- 4SUBODH DASCommunist Party of India · CPI6,3654.8%
- 5DILIP MANJHIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,0892.3%
- 6SUSHIL CHANDRA CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND1,3821.0%
- 7AMRENDRA KUMARNationalist Congress Party · NCP2660.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- SAPflipped
- SAP–RJD swing
- +2.7%
- SAP share
- 21.1% → 53.5%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —