GEN · Bihar 1947 1999
Samastipur
Ajit Kumar Mehta (RJD) won by 37,654 votes (4.8%).
- Electors
- 12,18,831
- Votes polled
- 8,01,116
- Valid votes
- —
- Turnout
- 65.7%
- NOTA
- 0
Margin vs 1998 national median: 4.8% (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.
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 | Ajit Kumar MehtaWinner | RJD | 3,01,099 | 38.2% |
| 2 | Ashok Singh | SAP | 2,63,445 | 33.5% |
| 3 | Chandradeo Roy | JD | 93,831 | 11.9% |
| 4 | Ram Deo Verma | CPM | 71,371 | 9.1% |
| 5 | Ajai Kumar Bulganin | SP | 36,710 | 4.7% |
| 6 | Jai Narayan Sharma | IND | 7,385 | 0.9% |
| 7 | Sures Choudhary | LSWP | 3,850 | 0.5% |
| 8 | Vijay Kumar Jha | JP | 2,691 | 0.3% |
| 9 | Bhola Prasad Sharma | IND | 2,124 | 0.3% |
| 10 | Ramanuj Singh | SHS | 1,841 | 0.2% |
| 11 | Ram Sagar Paswan | IND | 1,728 | 0.2% |
| 12 | Ram Narayan Paswan | IND | 1,467 | 0.2% |
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