Constituency
95. Arrah
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-ARRAH
RJD 38.7%won by 13.5%JDU 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 13.5%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 31.4% to 38.7% of the vote here (+7.3%).
- New challengerJanata Dal (United) (JDU) finished second with 25.2% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.9% between them, down from 70.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.2% to 60.8%.
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Electorate
11,21,825
Turnout
60.8%
Valid votes
6,81,789
Margin
92,282
13.54%
Candidates
14 contested · winner RJD- 1Ram Prasad SinghRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,64,14038.7%
- 2H P SinghJanata Dal (United) · JDU1,71,85825.2%
- 3Rameshwar PrasadCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,41,93920.8%
- 4Rang Bahadur SinghIndependent · IND87,26312.8%
- 5Ram Awadhesh SinghJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS6,0810.9%
- 6Udai Narain RamBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,7260.4%
- 7Ajit SinghKVSB · KVSB1,4810.2%
- 8Abhimanyu Prasad SinghRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD1,4660.2%
- 9Ram Swaroop Singh YadavAJBP · AJBP1,2400.2%
- 10Mahendra Pd SinhaIndependent · IND1,0550.2%
- 11Sridhar UpadhayaAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM1,0130.1%
- 12Gopi Chandra PrasadNationalist Congress Party · NCP7180.1%
- 13Poonam SinghSJPR · SJPR4410.1%
- 14Mahesh PrasadIndependent · IND3680.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- SAP
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–JDU swing
- −17.9%
- RJD share
- 31.4% → 38.7%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 25.2%
- Turnout
- 65.0% → 60.8%