Constituency
80. Madhepura
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-MADHEPURA
JDU 50.7%won by 4.7%RJD 46.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Janata Dal (United) (JDU), which now leads by 4.7%.
- JDU vote shareJDU went from 0.0% to 50.7% of the vote here (+50.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 86.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,97,210
Turnout
65.0%
Valid votes
6,48,473
Margin
30,320
4.68%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JDU- 1Sharad YadavJanata Dal (United) · JDU3,28,76150.7%
- 2Lalu PrasadRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,98,44146.0%
- 3Arbinad KumarJanahitha Paksha · JP8,3491.3%
- 4Dr AmarIndependent · IND5,9230.9%
- 5Suraj YadavNationalist Congress Party · NCP5,0870.8%
- 6Prashanna KumarIndependent · IND1,9120.3%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- JDUflipped
- JDU–RJD swing
- +51.9%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 50.7%
- RJD share
- 47.2% → 46.0%
- Turnout
- 63.3% → 65.0%