Constituency
94. Patna
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-PATNA
BJP 47.3%won by 5.8%RJD 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.2% to 5.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.7% between them, down from 94.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.6% to 54.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
14,70,372
Turnout
54.5%
Valid votes
8,02,107
Margin
46,892
5.85%
Candidates
24 contested · winner BJP- 1C P ThakurBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,79,37047.3%
- 2Ram Kripal YadavRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,32,47841.5%
- 3Ramanand YadavIndependent · IND47,6825.9%
- 4Saroj ChoubeyCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL20,4762.6%
- 5Jagdeep Prasad VermaIndependent · IND6,1270.8%
- 6Chander ShekharJanahitha Paksha · JP2,5290.3%
- 7Harendra Ku PatelNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,3500.3%
- 8Nagendra RayIndependent · IND2,2100.3%
- 9Lakhan PrasadBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6330.2%
- 10Deepak Na LalIndependent · IND9710.1%
- 11S M TaquiAJBP · AJBP9590.1%
- 12Binod Kumar SinhaJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS9080.1%
- 13Nagarmal WajoriaIndependent · IND8050.1%
- 14Ram Pd ChandravanshiBMF · BMF7370.1%
- 15Shashi Prasad YadavBHJVP · BHJVP5710.1%
- 16Devdeep SharmaIndependent · IND5240.1%
- 17Lal Bahadur SinghIndependent · IND3700.0%
- 18Shatrughan SharmaIndependent · IND3000.0%
- 19Shiv Nandan PrasadIndependent · IND2770.0%
- 20Md NasimIndependent · IND2510.0%
- 21Raju Kumar VidyarthiIndependent · IND1760.0%
- 22Tarakant ChoudharyRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP1640.0%
- 23Rajkpoor SamaIndependent · IND1340.0%
- 24Shayam Sunder DudewalaIndependent · IND1050.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–RJD swing
- −2.3%
- BJP share
- 51.5% → 47.3%
- RJD share
- 43.4% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- 44.0% → 54.5%