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96. Buxar

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-BUXAR

BJP 39.1%won by 1.9%RJD 37.2%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.0% to 1.9%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.4% of the vote between them, up from 69.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 4.8% to 58.6%.

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

Electorate
10,29,419
Turnout
58.6%
Valid votes
6,02,749
Margin
11,606
1.93%

Candidates

7 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Lal Muni ChoubeyBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,35,96839.1%
  2. 2Shivanand TiwaryRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,24,36237.2%
  3. 3Tej Narayan SinghCommunist Party of India · CPI67,91611.3%
  4. 4Mitranand SinghCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL36,3856.0%
  5. 5Sobh Nath Ram AnokhaBahujan Samaj Party · BSP32,9575.5%
  6. 6Dinanath PandeyShiv Sena · SHS3,6500.6%
  7. 7Vijay SinghSJPR · SJPR1,5110.3%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–RJD swing
−11.0%
BJP share
41.1% → 39.1%
RJD share
28.1% → 37.2%
Turnout
63.4% → 58.6%
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