Constituency
208. Patna East
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-PATNA-EAST
BJP 54.1%won by 26.1%RJD 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 26.1%.
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 28.1% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.2% of the vote between them, up from 65.6% — 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
1,20,777
Margin
31,492
26.07%
Candidates
18 contested · winner BJP- 1NAND KISHOR YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP65,37754.1%
- 2GYANEDRA KUMAR YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD33,88528.1%
- 3BINDESHWARI PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,78910.6%
- 4UMESH KUMARIndependent · IND2,6362.2%
- 5LALAN KUMARCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,8171.5%
- 6RAMNATH PRASADSamajwadi Party · SP1,4661.2%
- 7NARAYAN PRASADIndependent · IND8960.7%
- 8PRABHAT JAISWALIndependent · IND4940.4%
- 9RAM KARAN YADAVNationalist Congress Party · NCP4030.3%
- 10MADAN PRASAD KASHERABahujan Samaj Party · BSP3410.3%
- 11RAJ KUMAR PRASADIndependent · IND2190.2%
- 12SAIYAD SHAHJAHAN AHMADBJCR · BJCR990.1%
- 13NAGARMAL BAJORIAIndependent · IND790.1%
- 14SANJAY YADAVAJBP · AJBP750.1%
- 15AJAY KUMAR AZADIndependent · IND690.1%
- 16BRIJ MOHAN LALIndependent · IND620.1%
- 17UDAY MISHRAIndependent · IND380.0%
- 18AKHILESH KUMARIndependent · IND320.0%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–RJD swing
- −9.5%
- BJP share
- 35.6% → 54.1%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- — → —