Constituency
70. Sitamarhi
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-SITAMARHI
RJD 36.4%won by 3.1%JD 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 3.1%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 0.0% to 36.4% of the vote here (+36.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.7% between them, down from 76.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,24,360
Turnout
67.9%
Valid votes
7,63,903
Margin
23,509
3.08%
Candidates
7 contested · winner RJD- 1SITA RAM YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,77,89836.4%
- 2NAWAL KISHORE RAIJanata Dal · JD2,54,38933.3%
- 3AWANISH KUMAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,25,18729.5%
- 4RAVI KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND2,7760.4%
- 5RAM BABU SINGHIndependent · IND1,5530.2%
- 6YOGENDRA PASWANIndependent · IND1,1040.1%
- 7VAIDYA NATH RAIIndependent · IND9960.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–JD swing
- +46.9%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 36.4%
- JD share
- 43.8% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- 66.0% → 67.9%