Constituency
101. Nawada
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-NAWADA
RJD 46.7%won by 1.7%BJP 45.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 1.7%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 0.0% to 46.7% of the vote here (+46.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.7% of the vote between them, up from 70.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.9% to 74.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,72,729
Turnout
74.1%
Valid votes
8,68,645
Margin
14,384
1.66%
Candidates
11 contested · winner RJD- 1MALTI DEVIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD4,05,49546.7%
- 2KAMESHWAR PASWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,91,11145.0%
- 3BANWARI RAMIndependent · IND38,7924.5%
- 4SARANGDHAR PASWANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM21,6782.5%
- 5YAMUNA MUNJHIABMSD · ABMSD3,3650.4%
- 6MATHURA RAJBANSHIAJBP · AJBP3,0790.4%
- 7KAILASH PASWANIndependent · IND1,4210.2%
- 8KUNWAR RAMIndependent · IND1,1430.1%
- 9ARUN KUMARIndependent · IND1,1230.1%
- 10RAMCHANDRA RAMIndependent · IND8880.1%
- 11RAMJEE PASWANIndependent · IND5500.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–BJP swing
- +43.4%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 46.7%
- BJP share
- 41.7% → 45.0%
- Turnout
- 63.2% → 74.1%