Constituency
83. Katihar
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-KATIHAR
JD 35.0%won by 4.7%INC 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.7% to 4.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 19.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.3% between them, down from 92.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 14.9% to 57.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,65,167
Turnout
57.5%
Valid votes
4,97,729
Margin
23,622
4.75%
Candidates
29 contested · winner JD- 1MD. YUNUS SALIMJanata Dal · JD1,74,43035.0%
- 2TARIQUE ANWERIndian National Congress · INC1,50,80830.3%
- 3NIKHIL KUMAR CHAUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,39,89428.1%
- 4RAM SIPAHI YADAVJF · JF5,5211.1%
- 5MAHBOOB ALAMIPF · IPF4,6710.9%
- 6JAKIR HUSSAINIndependent · IND3,5440.7%
- 7JAWAHER LALIndependent · IND3,2870.7%
- 8SURESH KR. SRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND2,6120.5%
- 9RADHA MOHAN DASIndependent · IND1,5560.3%
- 10SOBRAN RAJAKIndependent · IND1,4580.3%
- 11NAFISH AHMEDIndependent · IND1,0390.2%
- 12BIDESHI RABIDASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9820.2%
- 13KANT LAL MANDALIndependent · IND9230.2%
- 14ARUNA JHAIndependent · IND7220.1%
- 15JITENDRA KR. YADAVIndependent · IND6660.1%
- 16SHARDA DEVI (W)Independent · IND6550.1%
- 17JAI BHARAT SINHAIndependent · IND6020.1%
- 18MANGAN INSANIndependent · IND5980.1%
- 19SADHAN DASIndependent · IND5140.1%
- 20UTTAM LAL SHARMAIndependent · IND4450.1%
- 21SURESH KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND4120.1%
- 22SHYAM SUNDER DADHICHIIndependent · IND4060.1%
- 23MAKIRUDDINIndependent · IND3970.1%
- 24RAM SEWAK DASIndependent · IND3540.1%
- 25KAMAL AGRAWALIndependent · IND2870.1%
- 26MADHNESHWAR SHARMAIndependent · IND2820.1%
- 27IFTKHAR ALAMIndependent · IND2570.1%
- 28UMA SHANKAR SINGHIndependent · IND2070.0%
- 29ABHEY KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND2000.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–INC swing
- −11.9%
- JD share
- 54.7% → 35.0%
- INC share
- 38.0% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- 72.4% → 57.5%