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60. Bagaha

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-BAGAHA

SAP 43.1%won by 8.5%JD 34.6%

What changed here

Derived

Samajwadi Andolan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.3% to 8.5%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 7.4% to 52.4%.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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

Electorate
10,28,588
Turnout
52.4%
Valid votes
5,38,621
Margin
45,743
8.49%

Candidates

7 contested · winner SAP
  1. 1MAHENDRA BAITHASamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2,31,91943.1%
  2. 2PURNAMASI RAMJanata Dal · JD1,86,17634.6%
  3. 3DASAI CHOUDHARYAIRJP · AIRJP62,58011.6%
  4. 4SITA RAM PRASADIndian National Congress · INC22,1154.1%
  5. 5NANDJI RAMCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL21,3904.0%
  6. 6NAND KISHOR RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,6671.4%
  7. 7SHAILENDRA PASWANLok Shakti · LS6,7741.3%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
SAP
Winner now
SAP
SAP–JD swing
−3.8%
SAP share
44.1% → 43.1%
JD share
31.8% → 34.6%
Turnout
45.0% → 52.4%
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