Constituency
84. Katihar
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-KATIHAR
BJP 43.9%won by 21.4%NCP 22.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 21.4%.
- New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 22.5% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.4% between them, down from 92.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.3% to 61.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,39,500
Turnout
61.5%
Valid votes
6,39,558
Margin
1,36,852
21.40%
Candidates
14 contested · winner BJP- 1Nikhil Kumar ChoudharyBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,80,91143.9%
- 2Tariq AnwarNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,44,05922.5%
- 3Mubarak HussainIndian National Congress · INC1,41,57522.1%
- 4Ram Prakash MahtoIndependent · IND48,9007.6%
- 5Madan Mohan Singh NishadBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,9600.9%
- 6Sowaran RajakIndependent · IND4,5660.7%
- 7Balmukund UraonIndependent · IND2,7590.4%
- 8Zafar AadilIndependent · IND2,6190.4%
- 9Yogendra PaswanIndependent · IND2,3040.4%
- 10Shakil Ahmed KhanIndependent · IND1,6000.3%
- 11Rajesh Kumar SinghIndependent · IND1,5770.2%
- 12Naresh Kumar RajakIndependent · IND1,1390.2%
- 13Ashok Kumar PaswanIndependent · IND8910.1%
- 14Pradeep Kumar SahIndependent · IND6980.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–NCP swing
- −23.6%
- BJP share
- 45.0% → 43.9%
- NCP share
- 0.0% → 22.5%
- Turnout
- 67.9% → 61.5%