Constituency
270. Barkatha
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-BARKATHA
CPI 28.6%won by 0.8%BJP 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 0.8%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 16.9% to 28.6% of the vote here (+11.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 56.4% of the vote between them, up from 49.5% — 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
1,15,989
Margin
875
0.75%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1BHUBNESHWAR PRASAD MEHTACommunist Party of India · CPI33,16928.6%
- 2KHAGENDRA PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP32,29427.8%
- 3JANKI YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD23,56220.3%
- 4BASUDEO YADAVIndian National Congress · INC16,39214.1%
- 5TUKLAL NAYAKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,4934.7%
- 6BIRBAL PRASAD MEHTANationalist Congress Party · NCP2,8632.5%
- 7FULESHWAR RAMIndependent · IND1,4971.3%
- 8GAJANAND SINGHIndependent · IND7190.6%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–BJP swing
- +16.5%
- CPI share
- 16.9% → 28.6%
- BJP share
- 32.6% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- — → —