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105. Giridih

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-GIRIDIH

BJP 46.7%won by 3.7%INC 43.0%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.0% to 3.7%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.7% of the vote between them, up from 80.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 8.6% to 47.7%.

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

Electorate
11,15,417
Turnout
47.7%
Valid votes
5,32,036
Margin
19,824
3.73%

Candidates

9 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Ravindra Kumar PandeyBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,48,45446.7%
  2. 2Rajendra Prasad SinghIndian National Congress · INC2,28,63043.0%
  3. 3Shiva MahatoJMMU · JMMU42,8028.0%
  4. 4Kartik MahatoJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM6,2561.2%
  5. 5Kamal DasBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,9440.6%
  6. 6S H KhanJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,0610.2%
  7. 7Sushma DeviAJBP · AJBP1,0080.2%
  8. 8Karam Chand MahaliIndependent · IND4820.1%
  9. 9Bijay Pd MahatoIndependent · IND3990.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–INC swing
−7.2%
BJP share
45.5% → 46.7%
INC share
34.5% → 43.0%
Turnout
56.3% → 47.7%
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