Constituency
81. Araria
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-ARARIA
RJD 48.3%won by 0.3%BJP 48.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 0.3%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 40.6% to 48.3% of the vote here (+7.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.3% of the vote between them, up from 86.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.8% to 61.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,43,070
Turnout
61.2%
Valid votes
6,38,646
Margin
2,169
0.34%
Candidates
8 contested · winner RJD- 1Sukdeo PaswanRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,08,57948.3%
- 2Parmanand RishidevBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,06,41048.0%
- 3Ramjee PrasadAJBP · AJBP9,3821.5%
- 4Bahuran RishideoIndependent · IND4,3850.7%
- 5Bilat Paswan VihanganBHJC · BHJC3,9640.6%
- 6Buddhadeo RishideoIndependent · IND3,5390.6%
- 7Lalu PaswanIndependent · IND1,5350.2%
- 8Rameshwar RamIndependent · IND8520.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–BJP swing
- +5.3%
- RJD share
- 40.6% → 48.3%
- BJP share
- 45.6% → 48.0%
- Turnout
- 65.0% → 61.2%