Constituency
99. Aurangabad
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-AURANGABAD
SAP 42.9%won by 12.5%RJD 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP), which now leads by 12.5%.
- SAP vote shareSAP went from 19.5% to 42.9% of the vote here (+23.4%).
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 30.4% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.3% of the vote between them, up from 64.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 13.6% to 63.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,91,703
Turnout
63.1%
Valid votes
6,88,606
Margin
86,293
12.53%
Candidates
13 contested · winner SAP- 1SUSHIL KUMAR SINGHSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2,95,44942.9%
- 2VIRENDRA KUMAR SINGHRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,09,15630.4%
- 3SATYADEO SINGHJanata Dal · JD74,97210.9%
- 4RAM SHARAN YADAVCommunist Party of India · CPI44,6056.5%
- 5RAJENDRA PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC24,1773.5%
- 6ANWAR HUSSAINCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL15,9052.3%
- 7BRAJ MOHN SINGHBJC · BJC7,3551.1%
- 8RANJAN KUMAR SINGHSamajwadi Party · SP6,1250.9%
- 9SURYA DEO CHAUHANIndependent · IND3,8080.6%
- 10AWADHESH RAMIndependent · IND2,3020.3%
- 11BIRENDRA RAMIndependent · IND2,0130.3%
- 12SHASHIBALA SINGHIndependent · IND1,3920.2%
- 13BASANT KUAMR SINGHIndependent · IND1,3470.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- SAPflipped
- SAP–RJD swing
- −7.0%
- SAP share
- 19.5% → 42.9%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- 49.5% → 63.1%