Constituency
73. Jhanjharpur
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-JHANJHARPUR
JDU 55.7%won by 19.0%RJD 36.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Janata Dal (United) (JDU), which now leads by 19.0%.
- JDU vote shareJDU went from 0.0% to 55.7% of the vote here (+55.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 69.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,53,943
Turnout
64.0%
Valid votes
6,74,416
Margin
1,27,814
18.95%
Candidates
10 contested · winner JDU- 1Devendra Prasad YadavJanata Dal (United) · JDU3,75,85255.7%
- 2Surendra Prasad YadavRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,48,03836.8%
- 3Chitranjan SahBahujan Samaj Party · BSP29,2454.3%
- 4Chandraveer KamatIndependent · IND6,4401.0%
- 5Pradeep PaswanIndependent · IND4,7950.7%
- 6Ganga Prasad YadavRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD3,1920.5%
- 7Vivekanand MishraIndependent · IND2,8230.4%
- 8Santosh Kumar JhaAJBP · AJBP2,3270.3%
- 9Chandra Kumar ChoudharyIndependent · IND9110.1%
- 10Sadhu PaswanIndependent · IND7930.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- JDUflipped
- JDU–RJD swing
- +56.5%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 55.7%
- RJD share
- 37.6% → 36.8%
- Turnout
- 65.9% → 64.0%