State board · Lok Sabha

Bihar Lok Sabha 1998

Results board · 54 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateBihar

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 54

Electors

5.88Cr

On the roll

Votes polled

3.74Cr

63.6% of electors

Median turnout

64.0%

Median of 54 seats

BJP short

−8

Below majority · 20 − 28

[01]Seat matrix

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

Majority · 28 of 54BJP 20 · 8 short of majority

BJP 2037.0% Bharatiya Janata Party

RJD 1731.5% Rashtriya Janata Dal

SAP 1018.5% Samata Party

INC 59.3% Indian National Congress

JD 11.9% Janata Dal

AIRJP 11.9% All India Rashtriya Janata Party

Not in the source

The source carries no state-level vote share for Bihar 1998.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Rajmahal was decided by 9 votes, the closest of 54 seats; Maharajganj had the widest margin, 2,05,553.
min / max of margin over 54 seats with a recorded margin
3 seats were won by a margin under 1%; RJD won 2 of them.
count(margin % < 1.0) = 3 of 54 · RJD 2
In SC-reserved seats BJP won 4 of 8 (50.0%), against 37.0% of all seats.
4 ÷ 8 = 50.0% · 20 ÷ 54 = 37.0%
Turnout ran from 44.0% in Patna to 76.4% in Jahanabad; the median seat polled 64.0%.
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% 23.7% of seats

50–60 1018.5% of seats

60–70 3564.8% of seats

70–80 713.0% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestPatna44.0%
HighestJahanabad76.4%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

54 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Bihar Lok Sabha 1998, all 54 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	BagahaSC	Mahendra Baitha	Samata Party	5,38,621	45,743	8.5	52.4
02	Bettiah	Dr.Madan Prasad Jaiswal	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,90,358	41,901	6.1	62.9
03	Motihari	Rama Devi	Rashtriya Janata Dal	6,61,406	88,074	13.3	59.5
04	Gopalganj	Abdul Ghafoor	Samata Party	7,05,063	68,605	9.7	59.9
05	Siwan	M.Sahabuddin	Rashtriya Janata Dal	6,64,819	1,20,484	18.1	67.3
06	MaharajganjWIDEST	Prabhunath Singh	Samata Party	6,64,232	2,05,553	31.0	67.6
07	Chapra	Heera Lal Rai	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,37,495	9,327	1.3	73.6
08	HajipurSC	Ram Vilas Paswan	Janata Dal	8,02,854	1,77,561	22.1	75.2
09	Vaishali	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,32,543	41,494	5.7	69.8
10	Muzaffarpur	Captain Jai Na. Pd. Nishad	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,44,962	21,923	2.9	70.2
11	Sitamarhi	Sita Ram Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,63,903	23,509	3.1	67.9
12	Sheohar	Anand Mohan	All India Rashtriya Janata Party	6,96,745	93,144	13.4	64.7
13	Madhubani	Dr.Shakeel Ahmad	Indian National Congress	7,16,489	16,485	2.3	65.0
14	Jhanjharpur	Surendra Prasad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal	6,94,189	37,268	5.4	65.9
15	Darbhanga	Md.Ali Asharaf Fatmi	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,28,435	36,108	5.0	69.8
16	RoseraSC	Pitambar Paswan	Rashtriya Janata Dal	6,84,994	43,281	6.3	63.6
17	Samastipur	Ajit Kumar Mehta	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,87,542	37,654	4.8	64.6
18	Barh	Nitish Kumar	Samata Party	7,47,664	15,190	2.0	68.4
19	Balia	Rajbanshi Mahto	Rashtriya Janata Dal	6,10,686	52,484	8.6	61.3
20	Saharsa	Anuplal Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,27,050	54,168	7.5	63.7
21	Madhepura	Lalu Prasad	Rashtriya Janata Dal	6,30,781	51,983	8.2	63.3
22	ArariaSC	Ramje Das Rishideo	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,78,739	33,937	5.0	65.0
23	Kishanganj	Taslim Uddin	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,29,132	6,488	0.9	64.6
24	Purnea	Jay Krishna Mandal	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,98,282	35,817	5.1	64.3
25	Katihar	Tariq Anawar	Indian National Congress	7,04,809	20,437	2.9	67.9
26	RajmahalSTCLOSEST	Som Marandi	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,84,517	9	0.0	61.5
27	DumkaST	Babu Lal Marandi	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,89,933	12,556	2.1	62.0
28	Godda	Jagdambi Prasad Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,08,694	75,680	10.7	65.2
29	Banka	Digvijay Singh	Samata Party	7,03,951	11,291	1.6	66.4
30	Bhagalpur	Prabhas Chandra Tiwari	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,83,516	91,847	11.7	63.6
31	Khagaria	Shakuni Choudhury	Samata Party	7,43,913	83,187	11.2	71.2
32	Monghyr	Bijoy Kumar \Bijoy\	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7,75,782	4,065	0.5	67.6
33	Begusarai	Rajo Singh	Indian National Congress	6,89,540	52,907	7.7	62.3
34	Nalanda	George Fernandes	Samata Party	8,84,719	1,15,670	13.1	75.1
35	Patna	C.P.Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,43,803	52,606	8.2	44.0
36	Arrah	H.P.Singh	Samata Party	7,26,373	58,164	8.0	65.0
37	Buxar	Lalmuni Chaubey	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,50,301	84,316	13.0	63.4
38	SasaramSC	Muni Lall	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,71,960	88,728	13.2	58.7
39	Bikramganj	Bashist Narayan Singh	Samata Party	7,47,006	7,851	1.1	65.7
40	Aurangabad	Sushil Kumar Singh	Samata Party	6,88,606	86,293	12.5	63.1
41	Jahanabad	Surendra Prasad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal	8,36,902	58,907	7.0	76.4
42	NawadaSC	Malti Devi	Rashtriya Janata Dal	8,68,645	14,384	1.7	74.1
43	GayaSC	Krishna Kumar Chaudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,97,093	37,446	5.4	66.1
44	Chatra	Dhirendra Agrawal	Bharatiya Janata Party	4,99,541	33,375	6.7	49.1
45	Kodarma	Ritlal Prasad Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,67,168	97,911	14.7	58.6
46	Giridih	Rabindra Kumar Pandey	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,27,484	68,791	11.0	56.3
47	Dhanbad	Rita Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	8,74,631	1,78,689	20.4	61.0
48	Hazaribagh	Yashwant Sinha	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,92,145	1,63,506	23.6	57.0
49	Ranchi	Ramtahal Choudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,84,795	1,43,580	21.0	60.5
50	Jamshedpur	Abha Mahato	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,14,864	97,433	13.6	61.6
51	SinghbhumST	Vijay Singh Soy	Indian National Congress	5,11,041	10,830	2.1	60.4
52	KhuntiST	Kariya Munda	Bharatiya Janata Party	4,62,980	39,949	8.6	55.5
53	LohardagaST	Indra Nath Bhagat	Indian National Congress	5,11,693	19,397	3.8	54.5
54	PalamauSC	Braj Mohan Ram	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,91,027	80,827	13.7	54.8

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 2,05,553 votes

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