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Bihar Lok Sabha 1996

Results board · 54 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateBihar
Seats
54
Constituencies
Majority
28
Seats needed of 54
Electors
5.84Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
3.42Cr
58.6% of electors
Median turnout
58.3%
Median of 54 seats
JD short
−6
Below majority · 22 − 28

[01]Seat matrix

54 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 54 seats: JD 22, BJP 18, SAP 6, CPI 3, INC 2, SP 1, IND 1, JMM 1. Majority line at 28 seats. Hemicycle of 54 seats: JD 22, BJP 18, SAP 6, CPI 3, INC 2, SP 1, IND 1, JMM 1. Majority line at 28 seats.
Majority · 28 of 54JD 22 · 6 short of majority
JD 2240.7% Janata Dal
BJP 1833.3% Bharatiya Janata Party
SAP 611.1% Samata Party
CPI 35.6% Communist Party of India
INC 23.7% Indian National Congress
SP 11.9% Samajwadi Party
IND 11.9% Independents
JMM 11.9% Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

[02]Vote share

Not in the source

The source carries no state-level vote share for Bihar 1996.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. Bikramganj was decided by 2,423 votes, the closest of 54 seats; Purnea had the widest margin, 3,16,155.

    min / max of margin over 54 seats with a recorded margin

  2. 1 seat was won by a margin under 1%; JD won 1 of them.

    count(margin % < 1.0) = 1 of 54 · JD 1

  3. In SC-reserved seats JD won 4 of 8 (50.0%), against 40.7% of all seats.

    4 ÷ 8 = 50.0% · 22 ÷ 54 = 40.7%

  4. Turnout ran from 44.7% in Palamu to 75.3% in Nalanda; the median seat polled 58.3%.

    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
025507510058.3%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 47.4% of seats
50–60 2953.7% of seats
60–70 1731.5% of seats
70–80 47.4% of seats
≥ 80% 00.0% of seats
  • LowestPalamu44.7%
  • HighestNalanda75.3%
  • NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

54 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, Bihar Lok Sabha 1996, all 54 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
01 BagahaSC Mahendra Baitha Samata Party 4,54,625 56,072 12.3 45.0
02 Bettiah Madan Prasad Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party 6,24,681 51,489 8.2 57.2
03 Motihari Radha Mohan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 6,11,189 1,27,809 20.9 54.8
04 Gopalganj Lal Babu Pd. Yadav Janata Dal 6,75,976 1,19,496 17.7 58.3
05 Siwan M. Sahabuddin Janata Dal 6,20,871 1,65,243 26.6 62.6
06 Maharajganj Ram Bahadur Singh Samata Party 5,99,193 1,52,854 25.5 60.8
07 Chapra Rajiv Pratap Rudi Bharatiya Janata Party 7,09,405 15,496 2.2 70.8
08 HajipurSC Ram Bilash Paswan Janata Dal 7,51,651 46,231 6.2 71.0
09 Vaishali Raghybansh Prasad Singh Janata Dal 7,03,863 62,683 8.9 66.7
10 Muzaffarpur Jai Narain Pd. Nishad Janata Dal 6,36,991 80,074 12.6 60.3
11 Sitamarhi Nawal Kishore Rai Janata Dal 7,35,844 82,257 11.2 66.0
12 Sheohar Anand Mohan Samata Party 6,78,513 40,637 6.0 62.6
13 Madhubani Chaturanan Mishra Communist Party of India 5,99,200 53,980 9.0 54.2
14 Jhanjharpur Devendra Prasad Yadav Janata Dal 6,64,227 78,149 11.8 62.8
15 Darbhanga Md. Ali Ashraf Fatmi Janata Dal 6,20,225 1,04,021 16.8 60.5
16 RoseraSC Pitambar Paswan Janata Dal 5,98,868 1,22,931 20.5 56.5
17 Samastipur Ajit Kumar Mehta Janata Dal 7,25,675 1,41,934 19.6 59.6
18 Barh Nitish Kumar Samata Party 6,99,891 64,854 9.3 64.3
19 Balia Shatrughan Prasad Singh Communist Party of India 5,25,636 88,334 16.8 52.9
20 Saharsa Dinesh Chandera Yadav Janata Dal 6,99,997 1,52,445 21.8 61.9
21 Madhepura Sharad Yadav Janata Dal 6,15,829 2,37,144 38.5 61.6
22 ArariaSC Sukdeo Paswan Janata Dal 5,84,137 48,278 8.3 55.7
23 Kishanganj Taslimuddin Janata Dal 6,84,493 1,64,583 24.0 60.5
24 PurneaWIDEST Rajesh Ranjan Samajwadi Party 6,71,574 3,16,155 47.1 62.5
25 Katihar Tariq Anwar Indian National Congress 6,36,290 88,286 13.9 63.9
26 RajmahalST Thomas Hansda Indian National Congress 5,57,789 1,43,162 25.7 58.8
27 DumkaST Shibu Soren Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 5,17,803 5,478 1.1 54.5
28 Godda Jagdambi Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 6,21,093 56,185 9.1 57.3
29 Banka Giridhari Yadav Janata Dal 6,29,616 14,715 2.3 59.8
30 Bhagalpur Chunchun Prasad Yadav Janata Dal 6,45,091 53,137 8.2 52.5
31 Khagaria Anil Kumar Yadav Janata Dal 6,73,812 12,377 1.8 65.2
32 Monghyr Brahmanand Mandal Samata Party 7,33,873 21,146 2.9 64.8
33 Begusarai Ramendra Kumar Independent 6,57,955 25,924 3.9 59.7
34 Nalanda George Ferandes Samata Party 8,83,016 1,67,864 19.0 75.3
35 Patna Ramkripal Yadav Janata Dal 7,74,285 39,467 5.1 53.3
36 Arrah Chandra Deo Prasad Verma Janata Dal 6,37,325 41,041 6.4 57.8
37 Buxar Lal Muni Choubey Bharatiya Janata Party 5,85,438 63,764 10.9 57.2
38 SasaramSC Muni Lal Bharatiya Janata Party 5,85,547 53,633 9.2 51.4
39 BikramganjCLOSEST Kanti Singh Janata Dal 6,52,935 2,423 0.4 58.2
40 Aurangabad Virendra Kumar Singh Janata Dal 5,38,309 23,032 4.3 49.5
41 Jahanabad Ramashraya Prasad Singh Communist Party of India 7,87,032 95,650 12.2 72.0
42 NawadaSC Kameshwar Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 7,43,744 96,914 13.0 63.2
43 GayaSC Bhagwati Devi Janata Dal 6,30,883 59,623 9.5 59.2
44 Chatra Dheerendra Agrawal Bharatiya Janata Party 5,05,695 54,370 10.8 49.8
45 Kodarma Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 6,16,906 46,954 7.6 55.3
46 Giridih Ravindra Kumar Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party 5,97,478 91,663 15.3 53.9
47 Dhanbad Rita Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 8,07,301 22,196 2.8 56.4
48 Hazaribagh Mahabir Lal Viswakarma Bharatiya Janata Party 6,18,800 71,251 11.5 51.0
49 Ranchi Ram Tahal Choudhary Bharatiya Janata Party 5,98,925 39,292 6.6 53.2
50 Jamshedpur Bhardwaj Nitish Janardan Bharatiya Janata Party 6,64,388 55,137 8.3 58.4
51 SinghbhumST Chitrasen Sinku Bharatiya Janata Party 4,62,016 11,947 2.6 55.1
52 KhuntiST Kariya Munda Bharatiya Janata Party 4,18,018 27,672 6.6 50.8
53 LohardagaST Lalit Oraon Bharatiya Janata Party 4,72,017 40,569 8.6 50.3
54 PalamuSC Braj Mohan Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 4,75,348 54,415 11.5 44.7
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 3,16,155 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1996 · Bihar · 54 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesThe source has no state-level summary for this election

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