Election
Constituency

80. Madhepura

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-MADHEPURA

RJD 47.2%won by 8.2%JD 39.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 8.2%.

  • RJD vote shareRJD went from 0.0% to 47.2% of the vote here (+47.2%).
  • 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
9,97,175
Turnout
63.3%
Valid votes
6,30,781
Margin
51,983
8.24%

Candidates

8 contested · winner RJD
  1. 1LALU PRASADRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,97,68647.2%
  2. 2SHARAD YADAVJanata Dal · JD2,45,70339.0%
  3. 3NIRMAL KUMAR SINGHSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP60,9219.7%
  4. 4AMRENDRA KUMAR AMARIndependent · IND18,2172.9%
  5. 5Y.N.YADABShiv Sena · SHS3,1220.5%
  6. 6ASHOK RAMIndependent · IND2,2730.4%
  7. 7KOSHI YADAVIndependent · IND2,0580.3%
  8. 8SHASHI KUMARIndependent · IND8010.1%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
JD
Winner now
RJDflipped
RJD–JD swing
+70.1%
RJD share
0.0% → 47.2%
JD share
61.9% → 39.0%
Turnout
61.6% → 63.3%
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