Constituency
96. Buxar
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BUXAR
BJP 41.1%won by 13.0%RJD 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.9% to 13.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 28.1% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.1% between them, down from 79.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.2% to 63.4%.
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Electorate
10,26,575
Turnout
63.4%
Valid votes
6,50,301
Margin
84,316
12.97%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1LALMUNI CHAUBEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,66,96141.1%
- 2UDAI PRATAP SINGHRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD1,82,64528.1%
- 3TEJ NARAIN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI93,26514.3%
- 4RAJESH SINGHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL49,7587.7%
- 5MAHABALI SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP48,2477.4%
- 6VIJAY SHANKAR MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC8,3891.3%
- 7NANDJEE SINGHIndependent · IND1,0360.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–RJD swing
- −32.4%
- BJP share
- 45.3% → 41.1%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- 57.1% → 63.4%