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83. Purnea

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-PURNEA

IND 63.2%won by 36.4%BJP 26.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 36.4%.

  • IND vote shareIND went from 3.6% to 63.2% of the vote here (+59.6%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.9% of the vote between them, up from 70.8% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
10,85,356
Turnout
63.9%
Valid votes
6,93,718
Margin
2,52,566
36.41%

Candidates

14 contested · winner IND
  1. 1Rajesh RanjanIndependent · IND4,38,19363.2%
  2. 2Jay Krishna MandalBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,85,62726.8%
  3. 3Abdul Khalil AhmadCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM29,7994.3%
  4. 4Mani Lal DasIndependent · IND12,8131.8%
  5. 5Mahmad AlamIndependent · IND5,1660.7%
  6. 6Ashok Ku SahJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM4,2980.6%
  7. 7Alimudin AnsariJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS3,2110.5%
  8. 8Nageshwar SinghIndependent · IND3,2070.5%
  9. 9Juver AlamBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,0320.4%
  10. 10Vipeen KumarAJBP · AJBP2,7270.4%
  11. 11Kuldeep MandalIndependent · IND1,9460.3%
  12. 12Sahdeo Prasad MandalIndependent · IND1,4010.2%
  13. 13Asha DeviIndependent · IND1,3740.2%
  14. 14Saiyad Gulam HusenNationalist Congress Party · NCP9240.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
INDflipped
IND–BJP swing
+70.8%
IND share
3.6% → 63.2%
BJP share
38.0% → 26.8%
Turnout
64.3% → 63.9%
82. Kishanganj84. Katihar
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