Constituency
108. Ranchi
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-RANCHI
BJP 65.7%won by 41.8%INC 23.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.0% to 41.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.6% between them, down from 95.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.5% to 51.0%.
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Electorate
11,31,760
Turnout
51.0%
Valid votes
5,77,090
Margin
2,41,177
41.79%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1Ram Tahal ChoudharyBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,79,26165.7%
- 2K K TewariIndian National Congress · INC1,38,08423.9%
- 3Prem Chand MahtoJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM39,0216.8%
- 4Anant Prasad GuptaCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6,3061.1%
- 5Napendra Krishna MahtoFBL · FBL4,7320.8%
- 6Agni PandeyIndependent · IND2,8900.5%
- 7Mahesh KumarBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6740.5%
- 8Fransis SarwanIndependent · IND1,6750.3%
- 9Ajay RaiAJBP · AJBP1,0460.2%
- 10Madan MundaIndependent · IND8180.1%
- 11Matuwar RamIndependent · IND5830.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +20.8%
- BJP share
- 58.1% → 65.7%
- INC share
- 37.2% → 23.9%
- Turnout
- 60.5% → 51.0%