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68. Vaishali

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-VAISHALI

RJD 43.5%won by 6.4%BPSP 37.1%

What changed here

Derived

Rashtriya Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.7% to 6.4%.

  • New challengerBPSP (BPSP) finished second with 37.1% — it did not contest here in 1998.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 2.1% to 67.7%.

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

Electorate
10,49,006
Turnout
67.7%
Valid votes
7,09,752
Margin
45,392
6.40%

Candidates

10 contested · winner RJD
  1. 1Raghuvansh Prasad SinghRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,08,45843.5%
  2. 2Lovely AnandBPSP · BPSP2,63,06637.1%
  3. 3Shashi Kumar RaiIndependent · IND1,12,45015.8%
  4. 4Mohammad Umar AnsariIndependent · IND7,5661.1%
  5. 5Yogendra RamIndependent · IND6,9521.0%
  6. 6Maheshwar PaswanIndependent · IND4,9660.7%
  7. 7Shambhu Sharan ThakurNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,2610.3%
  8. 8Prabhat KiranAJBP · AJBP2,0920.3%
  9. 9Upendra ChoudharyIndependent · IND1,2480.2%
  10. 10Ramekbal RamIndependent · IND6930.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
RJD
Winner now
RJD
RJD–BPSP swing
−37.6%
RJD share
44.0% → 43.5%
BPSP share
0.0% → 37.1%
Turnout
69.8% → 67.7%
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