EElectionLens
Constituency

238. Aurangabad

Community mirror

Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-AURANGABAD

RJD 35.5%won by 7.4%BJP 28.1%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 7.4%.

  • RJD vote shareRJD went from 0.0% to 35.5% of the vote here (+35.5%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 63.7% of the vote between them, up from 44.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,15,888
Margin
8,573
7.40%

Candidates

11 contested · winner RJD
  1. 1SURESH MEHTARashtriya Janata Dal · RJD41,17635.5%
  2. 2RAMADHAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP32,60328.1%
  3. 3YAMUNA SINGHIndependent · IND19,11916.5%
  4. 4TRIBHUWAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI9,8728.5%
  5. 5MD. KUDUS ANSARIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,9024.2%
  6. 6VIKAS KUMAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC3,1462.7%
  7. 7AKSHAI LAL PRASADIndependent · IND1,9201.7%
  8. 8SUNIL KUMARIndependent · IND1,5541.3%
  9. 9TEJENDRA KUMAR SINGHBJCR · BJCR9090.8%
  10. 10RAMESHWAR SINGHNationalist Congress Party · NCP4830.4%
  11. 11RAJENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND2040.2%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
RJDflipped
RJD–BJP swing
+31.3%
RJD share
0.0% → 35.5%
BJP share
23.9% → 28.1%
Turnout
— → —
237. Deo239. Rafiganj
Back to the BR Assembly 2000 explorer