Constituency
61. Bettiah
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-BETTIAH
RJD 37.1%won by 4.3%BJP 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 4.3%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 44.0% to 37.1% of the vote here (−6.9%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.9% between them, down from 93.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 18.1% to 44.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,78,163
Turnout
44.6%
Valid votes
5,69,909
Margin
24,671
4.33%
Candidates
14 contested · winner RJD- 1RAGHUNATH JHARashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,11,59037.1%
- 2MADAN PRASAD JAISWALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,86,91932.8%
- 3RAMCHANDRA SAHANICommunist Party of India · CPI47,8418.4%
- 4RAJAN TIWARIIndependent · IND32,7595.7%
- 5FAIYAZUL AZAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP32,2895.7%
- 6PRAKASH JHAIndependent · IND25,9784.6%
- 7DHARMESH PRASAD VERMASJPR · SJPR7,9351.4%
- 8VIRENDRA PRASAD GUPTACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6,1611.1%
- 9AKBAR HUSAINIndependent · IND5,7141.0%
- 10NASIM AHMADSamajwadi Party · SP4,1510.7%
- 11RAHMAT ALIIndependent · IND3,5370.6%
- 12NAFIS AHMADIndependent · IND2,0590.4%
- 13DIWAKAR MANI TRIPATHIIndependent · IND1,5380.3%
- 14KRISHN NAND PRASADIndependent · IND1,4380.3%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–BJP swing
- +10.1%
- RJD share
- 44.0% → 37.1%
- BJP share
- 49.8% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- 62.7% → 44.6%