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84. Katihar

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004

IN-KATIHAR

BJP 41.0%won by 0.4%NCP 40.6%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.4% to 0.4%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.7% of the vote between them, up from 66.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 2,565 votes (0.36%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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

Electorate
11,58,042
Turnout
60.8%
Valid votes
7,04,449
Margin
2,565
0.36%

Candidates

14 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1NIKHIL KUMAR CHOUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,88,92241.0%
  2. 2SHAH TARIQ ANWARNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,86,35740.6%
  3. 3MUBARAK HUSSAINSamajwadi Party · SP37,5845.3%
  4. 4RADHA URAONJDP · JDP23,6023.4%
  5. 5QUDDUS ALICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL19,5692.8%
  6. 6SHIV NANDAN MANDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP14,6632.1%
  7. 7SOVRAN RAJAKIndependent · IND13,7802.0%
  8. 8PRADEEP KUMAR SHARMAIndependent · IND5,2650.7%
  9. 9SUSHIL KUMAR PASWANIndependent · IND3,5940.5%
  10. 10PREM KUMARShiv Sena · SHS3,5400.5%
  11. 11BINOD KUMAR THAKURIndependent · IND1,9970.3%
  12. 12SUNIL KUMAR CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND1,9050.3%
  13. 13PRADEEP KUMAR SAHIndependent · IND1,8510.3%
  14. 14MAHMAD IQBAL QURESHIIndependent · IND1,8200.3%

Since 1999

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–NCP swing
−21.0%
BJP share
43.9% → 41.0%
NCP share
22.5% → 40.6%
Turnout
61.5% → 60.8%
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