GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Patna
Ramavatar Shastri (CPI) won by 20,413 votes (4.9%).
- Electors
- 8,95,002
- Votes polled
- 4,25,173
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 47.5%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1980 national median: 4.9% (median 16.7%). Back to Bihar 1947 1999 · 1980 national · Target seats
Seat health
Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.
Competitive (5–10%)Party held vs 1998
- Margin · 1999
- 5.8%(-2.3%)
- Turnout
- 55.2%(+10.5%)
- NOTA
- 0.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 88.7%
Winning margin over time · Patna
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ramavatar ShastriWinner | CPI | 1,67,290 | 39.8% |
| 2 | Mahamaya Pd. Sinha | JNP | 1,46,877 | 34.9% |
| 3 | Lalita Narayan | INC(I) | 82,593 | 19.7% |
| 4 | Ram Pukar Verma | IND | 5,587 | 1.3% |
| 5 | Shiv Nandan Prasad | IND | 3,091 | 0.7% |
| 6 | Ganpat Rai | IND | 1,945 | 0.5% |
| 7 | Jayanti Yadav | IND | 1,453 | 0.3% |
| 8 | Matinul Haque | IND | 1,325 | 0.3% |
| 9 | Nawal Kishore Prasad Singh | IND | 1,115 | 0.3% |
| 10 | Sadhya B. C. | FBL | 974 | 0.2% |
| 11 | Mehdi Mian | IND | 971 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Yogeshwar Prasad Singh | IND | 749 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Rai, Rajendra | IND | 693 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Uma Rai | IND | 527 | 0.1% |
| 15 | Kamal Narayan Choudhary | IND | 488 | 0.1% |
| 16 | Bholanath Choudhary | IND | 473 | 0.1% |
| 17 | Rakshpal N. K. | IND | 435 | 0.1% |
| 18 | Vinod Kumar Sinha | SSD | 415 | 0.1% |
| 19 | Krishan Thakur | IND | 393 | 0.1% |
| 19 | Ripudaman Pd. Singh | IND | 393 | 0.1% |
| 21 | Awadhesh Kumar Yadav | IND | 391 | 0.1% |
| 22 | Vasant Kumar Pathik | IND | 380 | 0.1% |
| 23 | Panna Lal Gupta | IND | 340 | 0.1% |
| 24 | Sachidanand Sahay | IND | 282 | 0.1% |
| 25 | Raji Ranjan | IND | 250 | 0.1% |
| 26 | Vijay Kumar | IND | 207 | 0.0% |
| 27 | Sao, Rajendra | IND | 202 | 0.0% |
| 28 | Vijay Kumar Singh | IND | 201 | 0.0% |
| 29 | Sunil Kumar Chatterjee | IND | 185 | 0.0% |
| 30 | Subhash Chandra Mehta | IND | 85 | 0.0% |
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