GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Barh
Shyam Sunder Gupta (BLD) won by 2,70,282 votes (55.1%).
- Electors
- 6,91,495
- Votes polled
- 4,98,010
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 72.0%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1977 national median: 55.1% (median 24.7%). Back to Bihar 1947 1999 · 1977 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
- 0.2%(-1.9%)
- Turnout
- 70.3%(+1.0%)
- NOTA
- 0.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 96.3%
Winning margin over time · Barh
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shyam Sunder GuptaWinner | BLD | 3,72,227 | 75.9% |
| 2 | Dharamvir Singh | INC | 1,01,945 | 20.8% |
| 3 | Bishnudhari Lal | IND | 4,697 | 1.0% |
| 4 | Ram Sharan Prasad Alias Bhola Prasad | IND | 3,752 | 0.8% |
| 5 | Lakshmi Narayan Prasad | IND | 1,895 | 0.4% |
| 5 | Shankutla Devi Mathur | IND | 1,895 | 0.4% |
| 7 | Ramchandra Prasad | IND | 1,269 | 0.3% |
| 8 | Ramchandra Yadav | IND | 746 | 0.2% |
| 9 | Devendra Kumar Yadav | IND | 660 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Mukteshwar Prasad | IND | 581 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Chandra Kant Kumar | IND | 461 | 0.1% |
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