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220. Rajpur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-RAJPUR

BSP 24.1%won by 1.8%RJD 22.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which now leads by 1.8%.

  • BSP vote shareBSP went from 14.9% to 24.1% of the vote here (+9.2%).
  • New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 22.3% — it did not contest here in 1995.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 46.4% between them, down from 55.0% — 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
89,675
Margin
1,615
1.80%

Candidates

16 contested · winner BSP
  1. 1CHHEDI LAL RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP21,60424.1%
  2. 2KAMAKHYA NARAYANRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD19,98922.3%
  3. 3SHYAM PYARI DEVISamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP16,68018.6%
  4. 4ARJUN RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI9,97411.1%
  5. 5RAM NARAYAN RAMIndependent · IND7,5308.4%
  6. 6OM PRAKASH VIDYARTHIIndependent · IND5,9746.7%
  7. 7RAMGRIH RAMIndian National Congress · INC1,7081.9%
  8. 8RAMA KANT RAMCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,4181.6%
  9. 9AMAR KUMAR PASWANNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,0351.2%
  10. 10VINOD KUMARAJBP · AJBP1,0081.1%
  11. 11DEEP CHAND DASIndependent · IND6750.8%
  12. 12YOGENDRA DHOBIShiv Sena · SHS6090.7%
  13. 13SURENDRA PASWANRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD5130.6%
  14. 14ANITA DEVIIndependent · IND4690.5%
  15. 15BUDHAN RAMIndependent · IND3650.4%
  16. 16RAJENDRA PRABHAKARSWJP · SWJP1240.1%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
BSPflipped
BSP–RJD swing
−13.1%
BSP share
14.9% → 24.1%
RJD share
0.0% → 22.3%
Turnout
— → —
219. Buxar221. Dumraon
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