GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Barh
Nitish Kumar (JD) won by 1,74,539 votes (24.8%).
- Electors
- 10,35,217
- Votes polled
- 7,18,960
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 69.5%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1991 national median: 24.8% (median 10.9%). Back to Bihar 1947 1999 · 1991 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 | 4,16,275 | 59.2% |
| 2 | Sidheshwar Prasad | INC | 2,41,736 | 34.4% |
| 3 | Brahmdeo Prasad | IPF | 18,691 | 2.7% |
| 4 | Vinod Yadav | BJP | 16,765 | 2.4% |
| 5 | Kanhaiya Jamadar | IND | 2,401 | 0.3% |
| 6 | Kapildeo Prasad | IND | 1,182 | 0.2% |
| 7 | Phulchand Singh | JP | 1,051 | 0.1% |
| 8 | Amarkant Paswan | IND | 742 | 0.1% |
| 9 | Vijay Anand | DBM | 487 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Ram Naresh Singh | IND | 325 | 0.0% |
| 11 | Aroon Prasad | SOP(L) | 277 | 0.0% |
| 12 | Rameshwar Das | IND | 261 | 0.0% |
| 13 | Ram Anugarh N. Singh Yadav | IND | 191 | 0.0% |
| 14 | Raj Deo Prasad Singh | IND | 178 | 0.0% |
| 15 | Lalan Paswan | IND | 177 | 0.0% |
| 16 | Ram Balak Thakur | IND | 169 | 0.0% |
| 17 | Satyendra Nath Verma | ABSP | 166 | 0.0% |
| 18 | Chandradeep Dass | IND | 158 | 0.0% |
| 19 | Jagdeo Dass | IND | 151 | 0.0% |
| 19 | Vishnu Narayan Chaubey | IND | 151 | 0.0% |
| 21 | Raghavendra Kumar Singh | IND | 140 | 0.0% |
| 22 | Ram Kumar Singh | IND | 134 | 0.0% |
| 23 | Rajendra Singh | IND | 131 | 0.0% |
| 24 | Nityanand Singh | IND | 119 | 0.0% |
| 25 | Dwarika Paswan | IND | 110 | 0.0% |
| 25 | Harkit Manjhi | IND | 110 | 0.0% |
| 27 | Sunil Singh | IND | 101 | 0.0% |
| 28 | Ajay Kumar | IND | 100 | 0.0% |
| 29 | Satish Chandra Mishra | IND | 95 | 0.0% |
| 30 | Nawal Singh | IND | 89 | 0.0% |
| 31 | Baijnath Singh | IND | 88 | 0.0% |
| 32 | Bindeshwar Rai | IND | 72 | 0.0% |
| 33 | Satendera Singh | IND | 70 | 0.0% |
| 34 | Aroon Kumar Singh (sosandi) | IND | 62 | 0.0% |
| 35 | R.D. Gupta | DDP | 59 | 0.0% |
| 35 | Bhola Prasad Singh | IND | 59 | 0.0% |
| 37 | Aroon Kumar Singh (mahamadpur) | IND | 57 | 0.0% |
| 38 | Jainendra Singh | IND | 56 | 0.0% |
| 39 | Chandrashekhar Prasad | IND | 52 | 0.0% |
| 40 | Sanjoi Kumar Singh | IND | 38 | 0.0% |
| 41 | Rajiv Ranjan Prasad | IND | 35 | 0.0% |
| 42 | Surender Singh | IND | 31 | 0.0% |
| 43 | Rameshwar Singh Azad | IND | 28 | 0.0% |
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