Constituency
216. Arrah
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-ARRAH
BJP 43.2%won by 13.7%RJD 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 13.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 19.5% to 43.2% of the vote here (+23.7%).
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 29.5% — it did not contest here in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.7% of the vote between them, up from 55.3% — 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
1,13,185
Margin
15,453
13.65%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1AMRENDRA PRATAP SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP48,84843.2%
- 2ABDUL MALICKRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD33,39529.5%
- 3LETAFAT HUSSAINCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL10,9099.6%
- 4LAL DAS RAIIndependent · IND9,4928.4%
- 5S.M. ISAIndian National Congress · INC4,8764.3%
- 6NURUL HAQUEIndependent · IND2,0871.8%
- 7SANTOSH KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9961.8%
- 8ACHARYA BHARAT BHUSHAN PANDEYABJS · ABJS4600.4%
- 9RATI KANT PANDEYAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM3610.3%
- 10RAKESH SINGHIndependent · IND2980.3%
- 11JAYANTI SINHAIndependent · IND2200.2%
- 12JAGAT KISHORE RAIIndependent · IND1580.1%
- 13ASHOK KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND850.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–RJD swing
- −5.8%
- BJP share
- 19.5% → 43.2%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- — → —