Constituency
76. Samastipur
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-SAMASTIPUR
JDU 46.6%won by 1.6%RJD 45.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Janata Dal (United) (JDU), which now leads by 1.6%.
- JDU vote shareJDU went from 0.0% to 46.6% of the vote here (+46.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.6% of the vote between them, up from 71.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,19,110
Turnout
64.9%
Valid votes
7,91,038
Margin
12,688
1.60%
Candidates
11 contested · winner JDU- 1Manjay LalJanata Dal (United) · JDU3,68,77646.6%
- 2Ashok SinghRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,56,08845.0%
- 3Ram Japit RaiIndependent · IND17,6022.2%
- 4Vinod ChaudharyCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL16,7242.1%
- 5Gajendra Prasad HimanshuLok Shakti · LS14,2531.8%
- 6Ram Roop Prasad RoyIndependent · IND4,4360.6%
- 7Jainarain SharmaLSWP · LSWP4,2930.5%
- 8Indrajit RamIndependent · IND2,8060.4%
- 9Sitaram PandeyAJBP · AJBP2,4510.3%
- 10Kailash PaswanIndependent · IND2,0520.3%
- 11Renuka SharmaNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,5570.2%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- JDUflipped
- JDU–RJD swing
- +39.8%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 46.6%
- RJD share
- 38.2% → 45.0%
- Turnout
- 64.6% → 64.9%