Constituency
291. Jamshedpur East
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-JAMSHEDPUR-EAST
BJP 63.9%won by 43.6%INC 20.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.9% to 43.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.2% of the vote between them, up from 43.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,10,109
Margin
47,963
43.56%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1RAGHUBAR DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP70,35863.9%
- 2K.P. SINGHIndian National Congress · INC22,39520.3%
- 3RADHE PRASAD YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD9,7858.9%
- 4SHAILENDRA SINGHJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4,8544.4%
- 5SHANKAR DAYAL SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI1,8181.7%
- 6BHOGENDRA MISHRABJCR · BJCR5400.5%
- 7BYAS PRASAD SHAHIShiv Sena · SHS2240.2%
- 8HALADHAR SORENIndependent · IND800.1%
- 9PHATIK CHANDRA GANGULIIndependent · IND550.0%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +42.7%
- BJP share
- 22.1% → 63.9%
- INC share
- 21.2% → 20.3%
- Turnout
- — → —