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107. Hazaribagh

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-HAZARIBAGH

BJP 46.7%won by 23.6%CPI 23.1%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.5% to 23.6%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 6.0% to 57.0%.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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

Electorate
12,13,735
Turnout
57.0%
Valid votes
6,92,145
Margin
1,63,506
23.62%

Candidates

8 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1YASHWANT SINHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,23,28346.7%
  2. 2BHUWANESHWAR PD.MEHTACommunist Party of India · CPI1,59,77723.1%
  3. 3TEKLAL MAHTOJMMM · JMMM1,40,05320.2%
  4. 4DEOKI NANDAN VEDIACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL30,0834.3%
  5. 5PRATIMA DEVIJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM28,9644.2%
  6. 6ARJUN RAMIndependent · IND4,2800.6%
  7. 7UMESH KUMAR CHOUBEYAJBP · AJBP3,7550.5%
  8. 8MAHENDRA RAMIndependent · IND1,9500.3%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–CPI swing
+12.1%
BJP share
38.4% → 46.7%
CPI share
26.8% → 23.1%
Turnout
51.0% → 57.0%
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