Constituency
74. Darbhanga
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-DARBHANGA
BJP 52.2%won by 7.3%RJD 44.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 7.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 38.4% to 52.2% of the vote here (+13.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.0% of the vote between them, up from 81.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.9% to 72.7%.
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Electorate
10,43,388
Turnout
72.7%
Valid votes
7,58,291
Margin
55,548
7.33%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1Kirti AzadBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,95,54952.2%
- 2Md Ali Ashraf FatmiRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,40,00144.8%
- 3Baidyanath YadavCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL9,9781.3%
- 4Bishwanath MandalBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,4710.7%
- 5Deo Narayan PaswanIndependent · IND4,1900.6%
- 6Umesh PaswanIndependent · IND1,1330.1%
- 7Lalit Mohan JhaIndependent · IND1,0590.1%
- 8Mithilesh Ku YadavIndependent · IND5730.1%
- 9Suresh PaswanIndependent · IND3370.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–RJD swing
- +12.3%
- BJP share
- 38.4% → 52.2%
- RJD share
- 43.3% → 44.8%
- Turnout
- 69.8% → 72.7%