Constituency
61. Bettiah
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-BETTIAH
JD 54.5%won by 18.9%BJP 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.5% to 18.9%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 35.6% — it did not contest here in 1989.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.1% of the vote between them, up from 72.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,20,104
Turnout
56.4%
Valid votes
5,19,197
Margin
98,358
18.94%
Candidates
21 contested · winner JD- 1FAIYAZULAZAMJanata Dal · JD2,83,07354.5%
- 2MADAN PRA. JAISWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,84,71535.6%
- 3SAHIR AHMADIndian National Congress · INC29,4545.7%
- 4DHARMESH PRASAD VERMAJanahitha Paksha · JP14,0722.7%
- 5PREM CHANDRA HAZRAIndependent · IND1,2460.2%
- 6AJOY KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1760.2%
- 7PREM KUMAR JAISWALIndependent · IND1,1690.2%
- 8ARJUN PANDEYIcs (Scs) · ICSSCS9870.2%
- 9PRABHU MISHRAIndependent · IND9510.2%
- 10SAHJADA MAINUDDINIndependent · IND3270.1%
- 11SHAMBHU PRASAD YADAVIndependent · IND3110.1%
- 12NATHUNI KAURIndependent · IND2870.1%
- 13RAJDEO TIWARYIndependent · IND2370.0%
- 14SHAMBHU PRASADIndependent · IND2250.0%
- 15SOOGRIVA BHAGATIndependent · IND1840.0%
- 16SAMSUDDIN MIANIndependent · IND1750.0%
- 17MAYA DEVI GUPTA (W)Independent · IND1590.0%
- 18SAHID MIANIndependent · IND1440.0%
- 19RAGHUNATH SAHDDP · DDP1380.0%
- 20HARI SANKAR SHARMAIndependent · IND1040.0%
- 21RAMESHWAR RAUTIndependent · IND630.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–BJP swing
- −22.0%
- JD share
- 40.9% → 54.5%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- 56.0% → 56.4%