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103. Chatra

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-CHATRA

RJD 52.7%won by 13.2%BJP 39.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 13.2%.

  • RJD vote shareRJD went from 38.4% to 52.7% of the vote here (+14.4%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.2% of the vote between them, up from 83.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 8.0% to 41.0%.

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

Electorate
10,15,184
Turnout
41.0%
Valid votes
4,16,769
Margin
55,099
13.22%

Candidates

14 contested · winner RJD
  1. 1NagmaniRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,19,78352.7%
  2. 2Dhirendra AgrawalBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,64,68439.5%
  3. 3Mahavir Prasad YadavBahujan Samaj Party · BSP11,2642.7%
  4. 4Pooran ChandJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM5,0051.2%
  5. 5Kamlesh Kumar SinghNationalist Congress Party · NCP3,4600.8%
  6. 6Om Prakash ChoudharyIndependent · IND2,6460.6%
  7. 7Md Sayeed KhanJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS2,3330.6%
  8. 8Girdhari YadavBJCR · BJCR2,1460.5%
  9. 9Raj Ballabh SinghSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD1,4250.3%
  10. 10Shyam Narayan SinghJanahitha Paksha · JP1,3440.3%
  11. 11Kamakhya Narayan SharmaAJBP · AJBP1,1090.3%
  12. 12Sarbulland KhanIndependent · IND5810.1%
  13. 13Sunil KumarIndependent · IND5650.1%
  14. 14Pradeep Kumar SinghIndependent · IND4240.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
RJDflipped
RJD–BJP swing
+19.9%
RJD share
38.4% → 52.7%
BJP share
45.1% → 39.5%
Turnout
49.1% → 41.0%
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