Constituency
70. Sitamarhi
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-SITAMARHI
JDU 55.3%won by 13.6%RJD 41.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Janata Dal (United) (JDU), which now leads by 13.6%.
- JDU vote shareJDU went from 0.0% to 55.3% of the vote here (+55.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.9% of the vote between them, up from 69.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.0% to 65.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,26,989
Turnout
65.9%
Valid votes
7,42,752
Margin
1,01,257
13.63%
Candidates
9 contested · winner JDU- 1Nawal Kishore RaiJanata Dal (United) · JDU4,10,55755.3%
- 2Suryadeo RaiRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,09,30041.6%
- 3K K SinghAJBP · AJBP5,4220.7%
- 4Ramjee RamIndependent · IND5,3210.7%
- 5Nawal Kishor RaiIndependent · IND3,3620.5%
- 6Sheikh Samsul HaqueIndependent · IND2,7420.4%
- 7Vinod K GuptaIndependent · IND2,7310.4%
- 8Harichandra RaiIndependent · IND2,1510.3%
- 9Sinha Shanker SatyadevIndependent · IND1,1660.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- JDUflipped
- JDU–RJD swing
- +50.0%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 55.3%
- RJD share
- 36.4% → 41.6%
- Turnout
- 67.9% → 65.9%