GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Dhanbad
Shankar Dayal Singh (INC) won by 62,295 votes (12.6%).
- Electors
- 9,23,926
- Votes polled
- 5,03,143
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 54.5%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1984 national median: 12.6% (median 17.9%). Back to Bihar 1947 1999 · 1984 national · Target seats
Seat health
Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.
Knife-edge (<2%)Party held vs 1998
- Margin · 1999
- 1.9%(-18.6%)
- Turnout
- 53.8%(-8.1%)
- NOTA
- 0.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 94.3%
Winning margin over time · Dhanbad
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shankar Dayal SinghWinner | INC | 2,03,909 | 41.4% |
| 2 | A.k.roy | IND | 1,41,614 | 28.7% |
| 3 | Samres Singh | BJP | 70,438 | 14.3% |
| 4 | Surya Deb Singh | JNP | 55,283 | 11.2% |
| 5 | A.n.dubey | IND | 3,054 | 0.6% |
| 6 | Budhan Ram | IND | 2,257 | 0.5% |
| 7 | Pradeep Kumar Sarkar | IND | 2,102 | 0.4% |
| 8 | Kumar Virendra Nath | IND | 1,534 | 0.3% |
| 9 | Krishna Prasad Sinha | IND | 1,330 | 0.3% |
| 10 | Nandal Gour | IND | 1,310 | 0.3% |
| 11 | Rajendra Pd. Agarwal | IND | 1,254 | 0.3% |
| 12 | Amwai Soren | IND | 1,247 | 0.3% |
| 13 | Ganauri Paswan | IND | 1,155 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Shankar Pandey | IND | 885 | 0.2% |
| 15 | Pran Krishna Mahto | IND | 753 | 0.2% |
| 16 | Subhas Chandra Verma | IND | 746 | 0.2% |
| 17 | Raju Malakar | IND | 712 | 0.1% |
| 18 | Raghav Singh | IND | 671 | 0.1% |
| 19 | Badri Ravidas | ICJ | 595 | 0.1% |
| 20 | Arjun Pandey | IND | 557 | 0.1% |
| 21 | Uma Shankar Pd. | IND | 555 | 0.1% |
| 22 | Ajay K.shrivastava | IND | 419 | 0.1% |
| 23 | Mahesh Pd. Singh | IND | 276 | 0.1% |
| 24 | Anil K. Banerjee | IND | 256 | 0.1% |
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