GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Nalanda
Sedheshwar Prasad (INC) won by 1,29,700 votes (33.6%).
- Electors
- 6,31,607
- Votes polled
- 3,91,876
- Valid votes
- 3,85,637
- Turnout
- 62.0%
- NOTA
- 0
- Polling date
- 1971-01-03
Margin vs 1971 national median: 33.6% (median 21.5%). Back to Bihar 1947 1999 · 1971 national · Target seats
Seat health
Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.
Comfortable (10–20%)Flipped vs 1998
- Margin · 1999
- 12.1%(-0.9%)
- Turnout
- 74.5%(-1.4%)
- NOTA
- 0.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 94.4%
Winning margin over time · Nalanda
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sedheshwar PrasadWinner | INC | 2,23,398 | 57.9% |
| 2 | Shyam Sunder Prasad | BJS | 93,698 | 24.3% |
| 3 | Ram Raj Prasad Singh | NCO | 42,259 | 11.0% |
| 4 | H. Rashid | MUL | 10,518 | 2.7% |
| 5 | Guru Sahay Arya | IND | 5,591 | 1.4% |
| 6 | Brij Nandan Yadav | IND | 5,237 | 1.4% |
| 7 | Ram Prasad Singh | IND | 2,903 | 0.8% |
| 8 | Ram Naresh Sharma | BKD | 2,033 | 0.5% |
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