Constituency
89. Bhagalpur
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-BHAGALPUR
CPM 47.9%won by 6.8%BJP 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 6.8%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 47.9% of the vote here (+47.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.1% of the vote between them, up from 77.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.2% to 54.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,32,833
Turnout
54.3%
Valid votes
6,69,871
Margin
45,540
6.80%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPM- 1Subodh RayCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,21,15947.9%
- 2Prabhash Chandra TiwariBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,75,61941.1%
- 3Dilip Kumar SinhaNationalist Congress Party · NCP26,7224.0%
- 4Ratan MandalBJCR · BJCR21,9073.3%
- 5Shankar BindBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9,7151.5%
- 6Awdhesh JhaIndependent · IND5,3240.8%
- 7Faiyaj BhagalpuriJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS2,7250.4%
- 8Das Shankar Kumar Jogendra MohanShiv Sena · SHS2,4200.4%
- 9Yugal MandalAJBP · AJBP1,2280.2%
- 10Indradeo DasRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD1,1040.2%
- 11Chunchun Prasad YadavIndependent · IND1,0600.2%
- 12Vijay YadavIndependent · IND8880.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–BJP swing
- +51.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 47.9%
- BJP share
- 44.6% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- 63.6% → 54.3%