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61. Bettiah

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-BETTIAH

BJP 49.8%won by 5.8%RJD 44.0%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 6.1% to 5.8%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.8% of the vote between them, up from 81.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate
10,98,637
Turnout
62.7%
Valid votes
6,89,040
Margin
39,650
5.75%

Candidates

10 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Dr Madan Prasad JaiswalBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,43,02749.8%
  2. 2Mataur RahmanRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,03,37744.0%
  3. 3Triveni TiwaryCommunist Party of India · CPI23,3173.4%
  4. 4Dharmesh Prasad VermaSJPR · SJPR11,9011.7%
  5. 5Nafish AhmadIndependent · IND2,5390.4%
  6. 6Rais LalIndependent · IND2,2930.3%
  7. 7Sanjay Kumar OjhaAJBP · AJBP1,0600.2%
  8. 8Ram Lakhan PrasadIndependent · IND6440.1%
  9. 9Ram Kumar DasIndependent · IND5960.1%
  10. 10Daroga ChaudharyIndependent · IND2860.0%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–RJD swing
−0.3%
BJP share
43.7% → 49.8%
RJD share
37.6% → 44.0%
Turnout
62.9% → 62.7%
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