Constituency
100. Jahanabad
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-JAHANABAD
RJD 42.5%won by 7.0%SAP 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 7.0%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 0.0% to 42.5% of the vote here (+42.5%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.9% of the vote between them, up from 59.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.3% to 76.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,96,143
Turnout
76.3%
Valid votes
8,36,902
Margin
58,907
7.04%
Candidates
9 contested · winner RJD- 1SURENDRA PRASAD YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,55,32242.5%
- 2ARUN KUMARSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2,96,41535.4%
- 3RAJA RAM SINGHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,32,59415.8%
- 4RAMASARAY PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI46,9625.6%
- 5MANTOO KUMARIndependent · IND1,8380.2%
- 6RAMPATI RAMIndependent · IND1,3400.2%
- 7SARDAR GIRIJESH SINGHIndependent · IND9170.1%
- 8RAMRUP SINGHIndependent · IND7650.1%
- 9VIJAY KUMARIndependent · IND7490.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–SAP swing
- +27.0%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 42.5%
- SAP share
- 20.0% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- 72.0% → 76.3%