Constituency
76. Samastipur
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-SAMASTIPUR
RJD 38.2%won by 4.8%SAP 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 4.8%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 0.0% to 38.2% of the vote here (+38.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.7% between them, down from 90.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.0% to 64.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,18,831
Turnout
64.6%
Valid votes
7,87,542
Margin
37,654
4.78%
Candidates
12 contested · winner RJD- 1AJIT KUMAR MEHTARashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,01,09938.2%
- 2ASHOK SINGHSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2,63,44533.5%
- 3CHANDRADEO ROYJanata Dal · JD93,83111.9%
- 4RAM DEO VERMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM71,3719.1%
- 5AJAI KUMAR BULGANINSamajwadi Party · SP36,7104.7%
- 6JAI NARAYAN SHARMAIndependent · IND7,3850.9%
- 7SURES CHOUDHARYLSWP · LSWP3,8500.5%
- 8VIJAY KUMAR JHAJanahitha Paksha · JP2,6910.3%
- 9BHOLA PRASAD SHARMAIndependent · IND2,1240.3%
- 10RAMANUJ SINGHShiv Sena · SHS1,8410.2%
- 11RAM SAGAR PASWANIndependent · IND1,7280.2%
- 12RAM NARAYAN PASWANIndependent · IND1,4670.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–SAP swing
- +40.4%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 38.2%
- SAP share
- 35.6% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- 59.6% → 64.6%