Constituency
111. Khunti
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-KHUNTI
BJP 43.3%won by 8.6%INC 34.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.6% to 8.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.9% of the vote between them, up from 59.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.7% to 55.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,33,558
Turnout
55.5%
Valid votes
4,62,980
Margin
39,949
8.63%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJP- 1KARIYA MUNDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,00,40643.3%
- 2SUSHILA KERKETTAIndian National Congress · INC1,60,45734.7%
- 3RAM DAYAL MUNDAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM58,54812.6%
- 4NIRAL ENEM HOROJan Kalyan Party · JKP43,5699.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +2.0%
- BJP share
- 33.2% → 43.3%
- INC share
- 26.6% → 34.7%
- Turnout
- 50.8% → 55.5%