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Constituency

70. Sitamarhi

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996

IN-SITAMARHI

JD 43.8%won by 11.2%INC 32.6%

What changed here

Derived

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.0% to 11.2%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 21.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.5% between them, down from 94.9% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
11,15,473
Turnout
66.0%
Valid votes
7,35,844
Margin
82,257
11.18%

Since 1991

Derived
Winner then
JD
Winner now
JD
JDINC swing
−23.8%
JD share
64.9% 43.8%
INC share
29.9% 32.6%
Turnout
64.4% 66.0%