State board · Lok Sabha

Bihar Lok Sabha 1999

Results board · 54 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateBihar

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 54

Electors

5.88Cr

On the roll

Votes polled

3.57Cr

60.6% of electors

Median turnout

61.5%

Median of 54 seats

BJP short

−5

Below majority · 23 − 28

[01]Seat matrix

54 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 28 of 54BJP 23 · 5 short of majority

BJP 2342.6% Bharatiya Janata Party

JD(U) 1833.3% Janata Dal (United)

RJD 713.0% Rashtriya Janata Dal

INC 47.4% Indian National Congress

IND 11.9% Independents

CPI(M) 11.9% Communist Party of India (Marxist)

Not in the source

The source carries no state-level vote share for Bihar 1999.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Barh was decided by 1,335 votes, the closest of 54 seats; Purnea had the widest margin, 2,52,566.
min / max of margin over 54 seats with a recorded margin
4 seats were won by a margin under 1%; RJD won 2 of them.
count(margin % < 1.0) = 4 of 54 · RJD 2
In SC-reserved seats BJP won 4 of 8 (50.0%), against 42.6% of all seats.
4 ÷ 8 = 50.0% · 23 ÷ 54 = 42.6%
Turnout ran from 38.7% in Lohardaga to 76.7% in Chapra; the median seat polled 61.5%.
min / median / max over 54 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

54 of 54 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 611.1% of seats

50–60 1629.6% of seats

60–70 2444.4% of seats

70–80 814.8% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestLohardaga38.7%
HighestChapra76.7%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

54 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Bihar Lok Sabha 1999, all 54 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	BagahaSC	Mahendra Baitha	Janata Dal (United)	5,70,270	54,751	9.6	55.4
02	Bettiah	Dr Madan Prasad Jaiswal	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,89,040	39,650	5.8	62.7
03	Motihari	Radha Mohan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,77,062	21,670	3.2	60.9
04	Gopalganj	Raghunath Jha	Janata Dal (United)	7,41,844	36,124	4.9	63.0
05	Siwan	M Sahabuddin	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,02,293	1,29,840	18.5	71.0
06	Maharajganj	Prabhunath Singh	Janata Dal (United)	6,97,300	1,04,063	14.9	71.0
07	Chapra	Rajiv Pratap Rudi	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,70,075	43,553	5.7	76.7
08	HajipurSC	Ram Vilas Paswan	Janata Dal (United)	7,79,601	1,05,504	13.5	73.3
09	Vaishali	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,09,752	45,392	6.4	67.7
10	Muzaffarpur	Captain Jai Na. Pd. Nishad	Janata Dal (United)	7,19,527	60,720	8.4	67.4
11	Sitamarhi	Nawal Kishore Rai	Janata Dal (United)	7,42,752	1,01,257	13.6	65.9
12	Sheohar	Md Anwarul Haque	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,15,936	2,535	0.4	66.1
13	Madhubani	Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,06,948	62,615	8.9	64.2
14	Jhanjharpur	Devendra Prasad Yadav	Janata Dal (United)	6,74,416	1,27,814	19.0	64.0
15	Darbhanga	Kirti Azad	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,58,291	55,548	7.3	72.7
16	RoseraSC	Ram Chandra Paswan	Janata Dal (United)	7,23,714	1,42,916	19.8	67.2
17	Samastipur	Manjay Lal	Janata Dal (United)	7,91,038	12,688	1.6	64.9
18	BarhCLOSEST	Nitish Kumar	Janata Dal (United)	7,50,668	1,335	0.2	69.4
19	Balia	Ramjivan Singh	Janata Dal (United)	4,99,385	12,032	2.4	50.1
20	Saharsa	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Janata Dal (United)	7,21,597	94,493	13.1	63.2
21	Madhepura	Sharad Yadav	Janata Dal (United)	6,48,473	30,320	4.7	65.0
22	ArariaSC	Sukdeo Paswan	Rashtriya Janata Dal	6,38,646	2,169	0.3	61.2
23	Kishanganj	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,17,635	8,648	1.2	63.5
24	PurneaWIDEST	Rajesh Ranjan	Independent	6,93,718	2,52,566	36.4	63.9
25	Katihar	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,39,558	1,36,852	21.4	61.5
26	RajmahalST	Thomas Hansda	Indian National Congress	5,60,248	62,099	11.1	58.9
27	DumkaST	Babu Lal Marandi	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,45,500	4,648	0.9	57.3
28	Godda	Jagdambi Prasad Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,33,556	79,892	12.6	58.3
29	Banka	Digvijay Singh	Janata Dal (United)	6,26,293	21,408	3.4	58.9
30	Bhagalpur	Subodh Ray	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,69,871	45,540	6.8	54.3
31	Khagaria	Renu Kumari	Janata Dal (United)	6,62,439	31,822	4.8	63.4
32	Monghyr	Brahma Nand Mandal	Janata Dal (United)	7,05,278	21,815	3.1	61.5
33	Begusarai	Rajo Singh	Indian National Congress	6,35,267	19,950	3.1	57.2
34	Nalanda	George Fernandes	Janata Dal (United)	8,71,579	1,05,821	12.1	73.9
35	Patna	C P Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party	8,02,107	46,892	5.9	54.6
36	Arrah	Ram Prasad Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal	6,81,789	92,282	13.5	60.8
37	Buxar	Lal Muni Choubey	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,02,749	11,606	1.9	58.6
38	SasaramSC	Muni Lall	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,53,315	18,676	2.9	57.1
39	Bikramganj	Kanti Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,34,918	34,768	4.7	65.1
40	Aurangabad	Shyama Singh	Indian National Congress	6,74,623	70,416	10.4	61.8
41	Jahanabad	Arun Kumar	Janata Dal (United)	7,75,282	17,287	2.2	70.2
42	NawadaSC	Sanjay Paswan	Bharatiya Janata Party	8,50,352	84,085	9.9	72.4
43	GayaSC	Ramji Manjhi	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,36,450	20,783	3.3	60.2
44	Chatra	Nagmani	Rashtriya Janata Dal	4,16,769	55,099	13.2	41.1
45	Kodarma	Tilakdhari Pd Singh	Indian National Congress	5,94,997	10,178	1.7	52.3
46	Giridih	Ravindra Kumar Pandey	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,32,036	19,824	3.7	47.7
47	Dhanbad	Rita Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,61,461	14,226	1.9	53.1
48	Hazaribagh	Yashwant Sinha	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,91,881	1,82,642	30.9	48.8
49	Ranchi	Ram Tahal Choudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,77,090	2,41,177	41.8	51.0
50	Jamshedpur	Abha Mahato	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,28,228	1,21,488	19.3	54.1
51	SinghbhumST	Laxman Gilua	Bharatiya Janata Party	4,71,500	82,311	17.5	55.7
52	KhuntiST	Kariya Munda	Bharatiya Janata Party	4,04,838	26,262	6.5	48.7
53	LohardagaST	Dukha Bhagat	Bharatiya Janata Party	3,63,514	3,823	1.1	38.7
54	PalamauSC	Braj Mohan Ram	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,08,960	85,125	16.7	47.1

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 2,52,566 votes

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