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306. Ranchi

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Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-RANCHI

BJP 55.0%won by 35.3%RJD 19.7%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.9% to 35.3%.

  • New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 19.7% — it did not contest here in 1995.
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,02,702
Margin
36,209
35.26%

Candidates

14 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1CHANDRESHWAR PRASAD SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP56,44555.0%
  2. 2JAI SINGH YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD20,23619.7%
  3. 3PRATIBHA PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC18,65118.2%
  4. 4KUMAR VARUNSamajwadi Party · SP2,3392.3%
  5. 5NAVIN CHANCHALJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,3691.3%
  6. 6MANSOOR ALAMIndependent · IND7800.8%
  7. 7RAKESH KUMARJan Kalyan Party · JKP7620.7%
  8. 8K.N. PANDITCommunist Party of India · CPI7560.7%
  9. 9MD. NAUSHAD KHANIndependent · IND4420.4%
  10. 10TAPESHWAR PRASAD NARAYANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4350.4%
  11. 11KUMKUM PRASADAJBP · AJBP2130.2%
  12. 12RAKESH KUMARShiv Sena · SHS1430.1%
  13. 13SHIV KUMAR SHARMABHJC · BHJC720.1%
  14. 14RISHI KESH MAHTONationalist Congress Party · NCP590.1%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–RJD swing
−8.9%
BJP share
44.1% → 55.0%
RJD share
0.0% → 19.7%
Turnout
— → —
305. Khijri307. Hatia
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