Constituency
62. Motihari
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-MOTIHARI
RJD 51.3%won by 14.3%BJP 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 14.3%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 46.8% to 51.3% of the vote here (+4.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.4% between them, down from 96.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.3% to 55.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,21,716
Turnout
55.6%
Valid votes
6,79,090
Margin
97,024
14.29%
Candidates
11 contested · winner RJD- 1AKHILES PRASAD SINGHRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,48,59651.3%
- 2RADHA MOHAN SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,51,57237.0%
- 3RAJA RAM SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP55,1058.1%
- 4KRISHNA MOHAN DASShiv Sena · SHS6,1950.9%
- 5SHEKHAR PRASAD JAISWALIndependent · IND5,6710.8%
- 6KAMESHWAR PRASADIndependent · IND3,2460.5%
- 7SHATRUGHAN TIWARIIndependent · IND2,1720.3%
- 8RAJU KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND2,1130.3%
- 9BHAGWAN LAL SAHIndependent · IND1,6340.2%
- 10KHALID MUSTAFAIndependent · IND1,4940.2%
- 11BHOLA SAHIndependent · IND1,2920.2%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–BJP swing
- +17.5%
- RJD share
- 46.8% → 51.3%
- BJP share
- 50.0% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- 60.9% → 55.6%