Constituency
72. Madhubani
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-MADHUBANI
BJP 46.5%won by 8.9%INC 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.9%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 37.5% to 46.5% of the vote here (+9.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.1% of the vote between them, up from 77.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,01,089
Turnout
64.2%
Valid votes
7,06,948
Margin
62,615
8.86%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1Hukumdeo Narayan YadavBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,28,61646.5%
- 2Dr Shakil AhmadIndian National Congress · INC2,66,00137.6%
- 3Bhogendra JhaCommunist Party of India · CPI99,39414.1%
- 4Ajimur Rahman FaizBHJC · BHJC9,8071.4%
- 5Ajay Kumar PurveyJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,8810.3%
- 6Ram Briksha MishraAJBP · AJBP1,2490.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +11.2%
- BJP share
- 37.5% → 46.5%
- INC share
- 39.8% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- 65.0% → 64.2%