GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Purnea
Jay Krishna Mandal (BJP) won by 35,817 votes (5.1%).
- Electors
- 10,85,968
- Votes polled
- 7,11,660
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 65.5%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1998 national median: 5.1% (median 7.6%). Back to Bihar 1947 1999 · 1998 national · Target seats
Seat health
Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.
Safe (20%+)Flipped vs 1998
- Margin · 1999
- 36.4%(+31.3%)
- Turnout
- 64.7%(-0.8%)
- NOTA
- 0.0%
- Top-2 squeeze
- 89.9%
Winning margin over time · Purnea
Candidates
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Vote share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jay Krishna MandalWinner | BJP | 2,65,096 | 38.0% |
| 2 | Rajesh Ranjan | SP | 2,29,279 | 32.8% |
| 3 | Uday Singh | INC | 1,02,297 | 14.6% |
| 4 | Dilip Kumar Yadav | RJD | 58,225 | 8.3% |
| 5 | Moidur Rahman | IND | 24,851 | 3.6% |
| 6 | Mahta Bimam | LS | 6,637 | 1.0% |
| 7 | Vaidyanath Choudhary | JP | 5,496 | 0.8% |
| 8 | Anil Kumar Singh | IND | 2,941 | 0.4% |
| 9 | Naresh Vishwas | SSD | 2,425 | 0.3% |
| 10 | Vishwanath Paswan | IND | 1,035 | 0.1% |
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