GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Samastipur
Manjay Lal (JD) won by 2,39,032 votes (33.9%).
- Electors
- 10,82,788
- Votes polled
- 7,13,698
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 65.9%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1991 national median: 33.9% (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
- 1.6%(-3.2%)
- Turnout
- 65.7%(-0.0%)
- NOTA
- 0.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 91.6%
Winning margin over time · Samastipur
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manjay LalWinner | JD | 4,30,450 | 61.0% |
| 2 | Baliram Bhagat | INC | 1,91,418 | 27.1% |
| 3 | Chandra Kant Choudhary | BJP | 60,344 | 8.6% |
| 4 | Anil Kumar Gupta | IND | 8,315 | 1.2% |
| 5 | Ajit Kumar Mehta | JP | 6,988 | 1.0% |
| 6 | Brahadeo Singh | IND | 2,580 | 0.4% |
| 7 | Upendra Poddar | SOP(L) | 1,949 | 0.3% |
| 8 | Suresh Choudhary | IND | 583 | 0.1% |
| 9 | Tirthanand Choudhary | IND | 502 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Turantlal Sahni | LKD | 281 | 0.0% |
| 11 | Rajendra Prasad Singh | IND | 267 | 0.0% |
| 12 | Ganpat Mahto | DDP | 257 | 0.0% |
| 13 | Vanarsi Thakur | IND | 256 | 0.0% |
| 14 | Dilip Kumar Sahni | BKUS | 241 | 0.0% |
| 15 | Awadh Sahni | IND | 187 | 0.0% |
| 16 | Kalpu Paswan | IND | 175 | 0.0% |
| 17 | Yogendra Prasad Singh | IND | 156 | 0.0% |
| 18 | Anandlal Singh | IND | 143 | 0.0% |
| 19 | Vidyasagar Gupta | IND | 136 | 0.0% |
| 20 | Raj Narayan Mishra | IND | 125 | 0.0% |
| 21 | Dharmakant Thakur | IND | 97 | 0.0% |
| 22 | Ramnarayan Singh | IND | 88 | 0.0% |
| 23 | Ramvilash Mahto | IND | 86 | 0.0% |
| 24 | Parmanand Mishra | IND | 80 | 0.0% |
| 25 | Ramakant Pathak | IND | 57 | 0.0% |
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