Election
Constituency

203. Bakhtiarpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-BAKHTIARPUR

BJP 27.8%won by 0.7%RJD 27.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 0.7%.

  • New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 1995.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 54.8% between them, down from 69.8% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,16,854
Margin
868
0.74%

Candidates

18 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1VINOD YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP32,43827.8%
  2. 2BRIJ NANDAN YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD31,57027.0%
  3. 3RAJAN KUMAR YADAVIndian National Congress · INC19,51416.7%
  4. 4BRIJ NANDAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI9,7088.3%
  5. 5JAI RAM YADAVIndependent · IND5,7164.9%
  6. 6RAJ DEO RAIIndependent · IND5,3404.6%
  7. 7SANJAY KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,8013.3%
  8. 8RAM VINOD PRASAD SINGHBJCR · BJCR1,7151.5%
  9. 9RAJIV KUMARIndependent · IND1,6591.4%
  10. 10RAM KISHORE SINGHAJBP · AJBP1,2901.1%
  11. 11MANOJ KUMARNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,1271.0%
  12. 12TUNNI SINGHIndependent · IND1,1241.0%
  13. 13PRAMOD KUMAR NIRALASamajwadi Party · SP6610.6%
  14. 14RAM SAGAR SAWIndependent · IND4470.4%
  15. 15SURENDRA SINGHRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD3620.3%
  16. 16RAJ BALLABH KUMARIndependent · IND1680.1%
  17. 17KUMAR INDRADEO PRASADIndependent · IND1500.1%
  18. 18UDAY SHANKAR PRASADIndependent · IND640.1%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
JD
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–RJD swing
−27.5%
BJP share
28.3% → 27.8%
RJD share
0.0% → 27.0%
Turnout
— → —
202. Barh204. Fatwa
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