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314. Bishnupur

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Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-BISHNUPUR

BJP 41.0%won by 7.1%INC 33.9%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 7.1%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 17.8% to 41.0% of the vote here (+23.2%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.9% of the vote between them, up from 55.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

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
54,575
Margin
3,850
7.05%

Candidates

11 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1CHANDRESH ORAONBharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,36941.0%
  2. 2BHUKHLA BHAGATIndian National Congress · INC18,51933.9%
  3. 3SUKHAIR BHAGATRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD5,2709.7%
  4. 4PRAVIN KUMAR ORAONJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4,0827.5%
  5. 5AJIT TIGGABahujan Samaj Party · BSP9711.8%
  6. 6BISHWANATH ORAONCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL9141.7%
  7. 7JAI PRAKASH BHAGATNationalist Congress Party · NCP7661.4%
  8. 8RAMESH ORAONIndependent · IND6121.1%
  9. 9BHIKHRAM ORAONIndependent · IND5150.9%
  10. 10AMIT BHAGATJKPP · JKPP3650.7%
  11. 11ETWARI BHAGATShiv Sena · SHS1920.4%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–INC swing
+25.9%
BJP share
17.8% → 41.0%
INC share
36.6% → 33.9%
Turnout
— → —
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