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98. Bikramganj

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-BIKRAMGANJ

RJD 47.1%won by 4.7%JDU 42.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 4.7%.

  • RJD vote shareRJD went from 39.3% to 47.1% of the vote here (+7.8%).
  • New challengerJanata Dal (United) (JDU) finished second with 42.4% — it did not contest here in 1998.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.5% of the vote between them, up from 79.7% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate
11,28,738
Turnout
65.1%
Valid votes
7,34,918
Margin
34,768
4.73%

Candidates

12 contested · winner RJD
  1. 1Kanti SinghRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,46,25947.1%
  2. 2Vashisht Narayan SinghJanata Dal (United) · JDU3,11,49142.4%
  3. 3Arun SinghCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL52,3847.1%
  4. 4Narendra Singh KushwahaBahujan Samaj Party · BSP14,8012.0%
  5. 5Lakshman ChoudharySanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD3,0580.4%
  6. 6Kumar Arun DeoShiv Sena · SHS2,1160.3%
  7. 7Bhagwan SinghIndependent · IND1,1310.2%
  8. 8Krishna Pratap PrabhakarRashtriya Lok Dal · RLD1,0940.1%
  9. 9Kapur Chand SinghIndependent · IND8620.1%
  10. 10Kedar PandeyAkhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha · ABHM7020.1%
  11. 11Kamlesh ChoudharyIndependent · IND5130.1%
  12. 12Kamta SinghIndependent · IND5070.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
SAP
Winner now
RJDflipped
RJD–JDU swing
−34.6%
RJD share
39.3% → 47.1%
JDU share
0.0% → 42.4%
Turnout
65.7% → 65.1%
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