GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Samastipur
Yamuna Prasad Mandal (INC) won by 75,716 votes (22.3%).
- Electors
- 6,19,551
- Votes polled
- 3,42,224
- Valid votes
- 3,39,464
- Turnout
- 55.2%
- NOTA
- 0
- Polling date
- 1971-01-03
Margin vs 1971 national median: 22.3% (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.
Knife-edge (<2%)Flipped vs 1998
- Margin · 1999
- 1.6%(-3.2%)
- Turnout
- 65.7%(-0.0%)
- NOTA
- 0.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 91.6%
Winning margin over time · Samastipur
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yamuna Prasad MandalWinner | INC | 1,66,827 | 49.1% |
| 2 | Valmiki Prasad Singh | BJS | 91,111 | 26.8% |
| 3 | Munshilal Roy | SSP | 73,359 | 21.6% |
| 4 | Lalit Kumar Singh | PBI | 2,842 | 0.8% |
| 5 | Yadunandan Thakur | IND | 2,118 | 0.6% |
| 6 | Jwala Prasad Choudhary | IND | 1,422 | 0.4% |
| 7 | Bhola Nath Choudhary | IND | 943 | 0.3% |
| 8 | Rampur Prasad Roy | IND | 842 | 0.2% |
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