Constituency
72. Madhubani
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-MADHUBANI
INC 39.8%won by 2.3%BJP 37.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 2.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 6.4% to 39.8% of the vote here (+33.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.3% between them, down from 85.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.8% to 65.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,02,007
Turnout
65.0%
Valid votes
7,16,489
Margin
16,485
2.30%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DR.SHAKEEL AHMADIndian National Congress · INC2,85,02939.8%
- 2HUKUMDEO NARAYAN YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,68,54437.5%
- 3CHATURANAN MISHRACommunist Party of India · CPI1,54,27321.5%
- 4KALAYAN YADAVIndependent · IND5,8000.8%
- 5RAMSUDISHI YADAVIndependent · IND1,5980.2%
- 6SITARAM PASWANIndependent · IND1,2450.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +34.0%
- INC share
- 6.4% → 39.8%
- BJP share
- 38.1% → 37.5%
- Turnout
- 54.2% → 65.0%