Constituency
82. Kishanganj
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-KISHANGANJ
JD 44.1%won by 15.2%BJP 28.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Dal (JD), which now leads by 15.2%.
- JD vote shareJD went from 25.5% to 44.1% of the vote here (+18.6%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 28.9% — it did not contest here in 1989.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.0% of the vote between them, up from 60.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.9% to 54.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,63,577
Turnout
54.5%
Valid votes
5,25,383
Margin
79,628
15.16%
Candidates
17 contested · winner JD- 1SYED SHAHABUDDINJanata Dal · JD2,31,70344.1%
- 2VISHWANATH KEJRIWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,52,07528.9%
- 3M.J. AKBARIndian National Congress · INC80,17515.3%
- 4TASLIM UDDINIndependent · IND42,7948.1%
- 5TARA CHANDIndependent · IND4,9870.9%
- 6ABADH DASIndependent · IND3,3620.6%
- 7VISHWAKARMA PRASADIndependent · IND2,9950.6%
- 8M.A. HANNANJanahitha Paksha · JP1,4430.3%
- 9SHIVNATH PRASADIndependent · IND1,3090.2%
- 10LAL CHAND JALANIndependent · IND1,1190.2%
- 11FAROOQUE AZAMIndependent · IND6410.1%
- 12SANTOSH KR. GHOSHIndependent · IND6150.1%
- 13MOHAN YADAVDDP · DDP5900.1%
- 14ZAHIR UDDINIndependent · IND5130.1%
- 15GAHAN LAL MAJHIIndependent · IND4010.1%
- 16BALAK DASIndependent · IND3680.1%
- 17VANKAT LAL AGARWALIndependent · IND2930.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JDflipped
- JD–BJP swing
- −10.4%
- JD share
- 25.5% → 44.1%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 28.9%
- Turnout
- 57.4% → 54.5%