GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Arrah
Rameshwar Prasad (IPF) won by 16,440 votes (3.0%).
- Electors
- 10,60,759
- Votes polled
- 5,57,507
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 52.6%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1989 national median: 3.0% (median 12.7%). Back to Bihar 1947 1999 · 1989 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
- 13.5%(+5.5%)
- Turnout
- 61.5%(-4.4%)
- NOTA
- 0.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 63.9%
Winning margin over time · Arrah
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rameshwar PrasadWinner | IPF | 1,78,211 | 32.7% |
| 2 | Tulsi Singh | JD | 1,61,771 | 29.6% |
| 3 | Baliram Bhagat | INC | 1,25,384 | 23.0% |
| 4 | Satinder Narayan Singh | BJP | 54,246 | 9.9% |
| 5 | Ramawadesh Singh | LKD (B) | 9,365 | 1.7% |
| 6 | Sant Kumar Singh | SSD | 2,628 | 0.5% |
| 7 | Devender Kumar Singh | IND | 1,704 | 0.3% |
| 8 | Rajendra Prasad Singh | IND | 1,473 | 0.3% |
| 9 | Probodh Kumar Tiwari | IND | 1,378 | 0.3% |
| 10 | Shiv Prasad Singh | IND | 1,200 | 0.2% |
| 11 | Ashok Singh Ravani | DDP | 1,117 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Devvans Prasad | IND | 1,082 | 0.2% |
| 13 | Shribhagwan Pandey | IND | 1,038 | 0.2% |
| 14 | Rajpati Devi | IND | 882 | 0.2% |
| 15 | Calector Singh | IND | 754 | 0.1% |
| 16 | Anwar Hussain | IND | 716 | 0.1% |
| 17 | Vinod Kumar Singh | IND | 632 | 0.1% |
| 18 | Alwad Ahmad | JNP (JP) | 630 | 0.1% |
| 19 | Subhash Chand Jain | IND | 601 | 0.1% |
| 20 | Ravi Prasad Gupta | IND | 490 | 0.1% |
| 21 | Surendra Mohan Singh | IND | 489 | 0.1% |
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