Constituency
76. Samastipur
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-SAMASTIPUR
JD 61.0%won by 33.9%INC 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 34.2% to 33.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.1% between them, down from 95.7% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,82,788
Turnout
65.2%
Valid votes
7,05,761
Margin
2,39,032
33.87%
Candidates
25 contested · winner JD- 1MANJAY LALJanata Dal · JD4,30,45061.0%
- 2BALIRAM BHAGATIndian National Congress · INC1,91,41827.1%
- 3CHANDRA KANT CHOUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP60,3448.6%
- 4ANIL KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND8,3151.2%
- 5AJIT KUMAR MEHTAJanahitha Paksha · JP6,9881.0%
- 6BRAHADEO SINGHIndependent · IND2,5800.4%
- 7UPENDRA PODDARSOPL · SOPL1,9490.3%
- 8SURESH CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND5830.1%
- 9TIRTHANAND CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND5020.1%
- 10TURANTLAL SAHNILKD · LKD2810.0%
- 11RAJENDRA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND2670.0%
- 12GANPAT MAHTODDP · DDP2570.0%
- 13VANARSI THAKURIndependent · IND2560.0%
- 14DILIP KUMAR SAHNIBKUS · BKUS2410.0%
- 15AWADH SAHNIIndependent · IND1870.0%
- 16KALPU PASWANIndependent · IND1750.0%
- 17YOGENDRA PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND1560.0%
- 18ANANDLAL SINGHIndependent · IND1430.0%
- 19VIDYASAGAR GUPTAIndependent · IND1360.0%
- 20RAJ NARAYAN MISHRAIndependent · IND1250.0%
- 21DHARMAKANT THAKURIndependent · IND970.0%
- 22RAMNARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND880.0%
- 23RAMVILASH MAHTOIndependent · IND860.0%
- 24PARMANAND MISHRAIndependent · IND800.0%
- 25RAMAKANT PATHAKIndependent · IND570.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–INC swing
- −0.3%
- JD share
- 65.0% → 61.0%
- INC share
- 30.8% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- 64.6% → 65.2%