Constituency
108. Ranchi
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-RANCHI
BJP 35.9%won by 6.6%INC 29.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.9% to 6.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Dal (JD) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.3% between them, down from 71.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.8% to 53.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,26,150
Turnout
53.2%
Valid votes
5,98,925
Margin
39,292
6.56%
Candidates
26 contested · winner BJP- 1RAM TAHAL CHOUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,15,27835.9%
- 2KESHWA MAHTO KAMLESHIndian National Congress · INC1,75,98629.4%
- 3ASHOK KUMAR SINGHJanata Dal · JD1,58,44926.5%
- 4BHAGWAN PD. BHAGATJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM11,5041.9%
- 5FRANCIS SARBASIndependent · IND7,8311.3%
- 6JITRAY MAHTOIndependent · IND5,5840.9%
- 7ASHISH KR. THAKURJMMM · JMMM3,9130.7%
- 8SUKHNATH MUNDAIndependent · IND2,8820.5%
- 9AKHAMAR ANSARIIndependent · IND2,5060.4%
- 10UDAY SHANKAR PRASADIndependent · IND2,0300.3%
- 11SADHU LAL MUNDAPSSS · PSSS1,7920.3%
- 12BALBHADRA DASIndependent · IND1,4400.2%
- 13RADHYSHYAM SINGHJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,1960.2%
- 14JAKARIAABLTASJM · ABLTASJM1,1110.2%
- 15CHHATRAPATI SHAHI MUNDAAIICT · AIICT1,1020.2%
- 16RAJENDRA MAHTOJKPP · JKPP1,0260.2%
- 17BISHESWAR MAHTOIndependent · IND9620.2%
- 18NIRANJAN KUMARIndependent · IND7850.1%
- 19UNIT KISHOR SAHUIndependent · IND7310.1%
- 20JAYRAM TIWARYIndependent · IND5540.1%
- 21KANHAI LAL SINGHIndependent · IND5510.1%
- 22SONA RAM BIRUWAIndependent · IND5170.1%
- 23SUSHIL SHARMAIndependent · IND3510.1%
- 24SANJAY KUMAR NAGIndependent · IND3300.1%
- 25RAJESHWAR PANDEYIndependent · IND2590.0%
- 26AJIT KUMARIndependent · IND2550.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −24.6%
- BJP share
- 48.5% → 35.9%
- INC share
- 17.3% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- 49.4% → 53.2%