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83. Purnea

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-PURNEA

BJP 38.0%won by 5.1%SP 32.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Samajwadi Party (SP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 5.1%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 18.9% to 38.0% of the vote here (+19.1%).
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.8% between them, down from 84.9% — the field split more ways.

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

Electorate
10,85,968
Turnout
64.3%
Valid votes
6,98,282
Margin
35,817
5.13%

Candidates

10 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1JAY KRISHNA MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,65,09638.0%
  2. 2RAJESH RANJANSamajwadi Party · SP2,29,27932.8%
  3. 3UDAY SINGHIndian National Congress · INC1,02,29714.6%
  4. 4DILIP KUMAR YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD58,2258.3%
  5. 5MOIDUR RAHMANIndependent · IND24,8513.6%
  6. 6MAHTA BIMAMLok Shakti · LS6,6371.0%
  7. 7VAIDYANATH CHOUDHARYJanahitha Paksha · JP5,4960.8%
  8. 8ANIL KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND2,9410.4%
  9. 9NARESH VISHWASSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD2,4250.3%
  10. 10VISHWANATH PASWANIndependent · IND1,0350.1%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
SP
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–SP swing
+52.2%
BJP share
18.9% → 38.0%
SP share
66.0% → 32.8%
Turnout
62.5% → 64.3%
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