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87. Godda

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-GODDA

BJP 34.9%won by 12.6%JMM 22.3%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.7% to 12.6%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.2% between them, down from 83.6% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 7.0% to 58.3%.

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

Electorate
10,87,573
Turnout
58.3%
Valid votes
6,33,556
Margin
79,892
12.61%

Candidates

8 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Jagdambi Prasad YadavBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,21,19134.9%
  2. 2Suraj MandalJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,41,29922.3%
  3. 3Furkan AnsariIndian National Congress · INC1,08,85217.2%
  4. 4Sanjay KumarCommunist Party of India · CPI86,43013.6%
  5. 5Javed Iqbal AnsariRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD60,0949.5%
  6. 6Tripurari MehtaBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,8981.1%
  7. 7Janardan YadavIndependent · IND6,5911.0%
  8. 8Hari Shankar SinghAJBP · AJBP2,2010.3%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–JMM swing
+1.9%
BJP share
47.1% → 34.9%
JMM share
36.5% → 22.3%
Turnout
65.2% → 58.3%
86. Dumka88. Banka
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