Constituency
191. Sheikhpura
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-SHEIKHPURA
INC 67.1%won by 46.3%RJD 20.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.3% to 46.3%.
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 20.8% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.9% of the vote between them, up from 67.3% — 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
1,30,619
Margin
60,537
46.35%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1SANJAY KUMAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC87,65067.1%
- 2VIJAY KUMAR YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD27,11320.8%
- 3JITENDRA NATHCommunist Party of India · CPI10,6238.1%
- 4RAM BADAN RAISamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP4,9473.8%
- 5SITA RAM YADAVIndependent · IND2860.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RJD swing
- +3.0%
- INC share
- 43.3% → 67.1%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 20.8%
- Turnout
- — → —