GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Barh
Nitish Kumar (JD) won by 78,347 votes (11.3%).
- Electors
- 10,31,955
- Votes polled
- 7,09,052
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 68.7%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1989 national median: 11.3% (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.
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 | Nitish KumarWinner | JD | 3,68,972 | 53.0% |
| 2 | Ramlakhan Singh Yadav | INC | 2,90,625 | 41.7% |
| 3 | Vishwa Mohan Choudhary | BJP | 27,415 | 3.9% |
| 4 | Brindra Paswan | JNP (JP) | 1,433 | 0.2% |
| 5 | Rameshwar Dass | IND | 954 | 0.1% |
| 6 | Janardan Choubey | DDP | 869 | 0.1% |
| 6 | Munna Singh | IND | 869 | 0.1% |
| 8 | Ram Jatan Singh | IND | 728 | 0.1% |
| 9 | Gobardhan Lal | IND | 706 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Dwarika Paswan | IND | 564 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Rajendra Singh | BKS | 367 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Chandeshwar Pd.singh | IND | 347 | 0.0% |
| 13 | Chandra Bhushan Singh | IND | 336 | 0.0% |
| 14 | Gajjendra Singh | IND | 250 | 0.0% |
| 15 | Balram Singh | IND | 249 | 0.0% |
| 16 | Badri Mistry | IND | 221 | 0.0% |
| 17 | Yugal Rai | IND | 219 | 0.0% |
| 18 | Md. Islam | IND | 210 | 0.0% |
| 19 | Rajdev Pd. Singh | IND | 179 | 0.0% |
| 20 | Rajiv Ranjan Pd. | IND | 174 | 0.0% |
| 21 | Subodh Kumar Sahu | IND | 170 | 0.0% |
| 22 | Ravindra Nath Singh | LKD (B) | 163 | 0.0% |
| 23 | Shiv Nandan Prasad | IND | 141 | 0.0% |
| 24 | Arun Kumar Singh | IND | 75 | 0.0% |
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