Election
Constituency

106. Dhanbad

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-DHANBAD

BJP 48.1%won by 1.9%MCO 46.2%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.4% to 1.9%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.3% of the vote between them, up from 80.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 7.9% to 53.1%.

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

Electorate
14,33,645
Turnout
53.1%
Valid votes
7,61,461
Margin
14,226
1.87%

Candidates

10 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Rita VermaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,66,06548.1%
  2. 2A K RoyMCO · MCO3,51,83946.2%
  3. 3Kansari MandalJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM18,6172.4%
  4. 4Upendra Narayan SinghCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7,8231.0%
  5. 5S K VermaJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS6,2270.8%
  6. 6Dhan PrasadBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,5600.6%
  7. 7Saroj Kumar ChoudharyAJBP · AJBP1,8640.2%
  8. 8Motilal RajwarIndependent · IND1,6800.2%
  9. 9Sharat DasABJS · ABJS1,6130.2%
  10. 10Munshi HembramIndependent · IND1,1730.2%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–MCO swing
−18.6%
BJP share
50.6% → 48.1%
MCO share
30.2% → 46.2%
Turnout
61.0% → 53.1%
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