Election
Constituency

212. Bikram

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Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-BIKRAM

BJP 50.8%won by 17.8%RJD 33.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 17.8%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 1.7% to 50.8% of the vote here (+49.0%).
  • New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 33.0% — it did not contest here in 1995.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.7% of the vote between them, up from 68.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,42,735
Margin
25,437
17.82%

Candidates

13 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1RAM JANAM SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP72,47850.8%
  2. 2CHADRAMA SINGH YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD47,04133.0%
  3. 3RAM NATH YADAVCommunist Party of India · CPI14,55010.2%
  4. 4ANIL KU. SARMAIndian National Congress · INC3,7572.6%
  5. 5SURESH SINGHSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1,9261.3%
  6. 6DR. ASHOK SHARMANationalist Congress Party · NCP1,1390.8%
  7. 7CHANDAVESHWAR ROYIndependent · IND9930.7%
  8. 8ASHOK KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3150.2%
  9. 9KOUSHAL KISHOR SINGHIndependent · IND1510.1%
  10. 10BHUPENDRA PASWANIndependent · IND1240.1%
  11. 11RAM NAGINA SINGHJanata Dal (United) · JDU1180.1%
  12. 12RAM SUTAN CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND860.1%
  13. 13SUDHIR KUMARIndependent · IND570.0%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–RJD swing
+16.1%
BJP share
1.7% → 50.8%
RJD share
0.0% → 33.0%
Turnout
— → —
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