Constituency
65. Maharajganj
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-MAHARAJGANJ
JD 38.0%won by 3.9%JP 34.1%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.1% to 3.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 27.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJanahitha Paksha (JP) finished second with 34.1% — it did not contest here in 1989.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.1% between them, down from 93.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.9% to 61.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,32,512
Turnout
61.1%
Valid votes
6,31,108
Margin
24,335
3.86%
Candidates
18 contested · winner JD- 1GIRIJA DEVI (W)Janata Dal · JD2,39,70038.0%
- 2RAM BAHADUR SINGHJanahitha Paksha · JP2,15,36534.1%
- 3RAMUDESHWAR SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP91,46014.5%
- 4PRABHU NATH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC71,14111.3%
- 5HIRA LAL RAIIndependent · IND4,1820.7%
- 6NILAM RANI (W)Ics (Scs) · ICSSCS3,0740.5%
- 7RAMAYODHYA RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,7810.3%
- 8ASHOK KUMARLKD · LKD1,4690.2%
- 9ARUN KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND5020.1%
- 10PASHUPATI RAIIndependent · IND4250.1%
- 11CHANDRA BHUSHAN SINGHIndependent · IND4170.1%
- 12NIZAMUDIN KHANIndependent · IND4170.1%
- 13DINESH KUMAR MANDALIndependent · IND3490.1%
- 14SHASHI BHUSHAN SINGHIndependent · IND1830.0%
- 15RAM EKBAL RAIIndependent · IND1740.0%
- 16RAJ BALABH BHARTIIndependent · IND1680.0%
- 17SHIV NATH MAHTOIndependent · IND1640.0%
- 18MAHESH SINGHIndependent · IND1370.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–JP swing
- −61.4%
- JD share
- 65.3% → 38.0%
- JP share
- 0.0% → 34.1%
- Turnout
- 57.2% → 61.1%