Constituency
315. Lohardaga
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-LOHARDAGA
BJP 35.2%won by 1.8%INC 33.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.8% to 1.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.7% of the vote between them, up from 59.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
48,229
Margin
848
1.76%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1SADHANU BHAGATBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,97935.2%
- 2INDRA NATH BHAGATIndian National Congress · INC16,13133.4%
- 3PAWAN EKKARashtriya Janata Dal · RJD10,86322.5%
- 4PINJU BHAGATIndependent · IND1,1682.4%
- 5BASUDEO ORAONIndependent · IND9712.0%
- 6JAGDIP ORAONCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL8731.8%
- 7SHIVDEO BHAGATBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5951.2%
- 8ABHAY KUJURJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM3630.8%
- 9KAMLA DEVINDPF · NDPF2860.6%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −1.1%
- BJP share
- 31.0% → 35.2%
- INC share
- 28.2% → 33.4%
- Turnout
- — → —