Constituency
82. Kishanganj
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-KISHANGANJ
BJP 36.0%won by 1.2%RJD 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 1.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 31.6% to 36.0% of the vote here (+4.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.7% of the vote between them, up from 64.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,29,430
Turnout
63.5%
Valid votes
7,17,635
Margin
8,648
1.21%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1Syed Shahnawaz HussainBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,58,03536.0%
- 2TaslimuddinRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,49,38734.8%
- 3Maulana Asrarul HaqueNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,97,47827.5%
- 4Aftab AhmadAJBP · AJBP9,8921.4%
- 5Pradeep Kumar SahSPSP · SPSP2,0170.3%
- 6Lal ChandIndependent · IND8260.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–RJD swing
- +2.1%
- BJP share
- 31.6% → 36.0%
- RJD share
- 32.5% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- 64.6% → 63.5%