Constituency
181. Palamau
Community mirrorJharkhand · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-PALAMAU
RJD 32.2%won by 8.6%BJP 23.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 8.6%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 36.6% to 32.2% of the vote here (−4.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 55.9% between them, down from 90.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.6% to 49.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,89,313
Turnout
49.8%
Valid votes
6,41,543
Margin
55,144
8.60%
Candidates
14 contested · winner RJD- 1MANOJ KUMARRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,06,73332.2%
- 2BRAJ MOHAN RAMBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,51,58923.6%
- 3RADHA KRISHN KISHOREJanata Dal (United) · JDU1,06,72516.6%
- 4JITENDRA KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP60,9079.5%
- 5VIJAY KUMARIndian National Congress · INC53,9988.4%
- 6RABINDRA BHUIYANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL16,8372.6%
- 7SURESH MANJHIIndependent · IND11,1181.7%
- 8SHRIHARI NAGSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP6,3851.0%
- 9GYANTI DEVIIndependent · IND5,6990.9%
- 10KANHAI RAMJan Kalyan Party · JKP5,5010.9%
- 11MITHILESH PASWANLJNSP · LJNSP4,3910.7%
- 12BHOLA RAMIndependent · IND4,2330.7%
- 13SURESH KUMARSamajwadi Party · SP4,1610.6%
- 14RAMDEO RAMShiv Sena · SHS3,2660.5%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–BJP swing
- +25.3%
- RJD share
- 36.6% → 32.2%
- BJP share
- 53.4% → 23.6%
- Turnout
- 47.1% → 49.8%