Constituency
66. Chapra
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-CHAPRA
BJP 50.7%won by 5.7%RJD 45.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 5.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 43.7% to 50.7% of the vote here (+7.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.8% of the vote between them, up from 88.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.2% to 76.7%.
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Electorate
10,03,426
Turnout
76.7%
Valid votes
7,70,075
Margin
43,553
5.66%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1Rajiv Pratap RudiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,90,47750.7%
- 2Hira Lal RaiRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,46,92445.1%
- 3Bachchu Prasad BiruBahujan Samaj Party · BSP12,3781.6%
- 4Lal Babu RaiJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS11,6891.5%
- 5Praveen KumarIndependent · IND3,2080.4%
- 6Anil Kumar SinghIndependent · IND2,5620.3%
- 7Ajay Kumar SinghNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,3850.3%
- 8Ram Kripal Prasad YadavIndependent · IND4520.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–RJD swing
- +6.9%
- BJP share
- 43.7% → 50.7%
- RJD share
- 45.0% → 45.1%
- Turnout
- 73.6% → 76.7%