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Bihar · PC 49 · 1999
Ranchi
Winner — Lok Sabha 1999
Ram Tahal Choudhary
BJP· NDA (NDA)
BJP 65.0%INC 23.7%9 others 11.4%
Votes
3,79,261
65.7% share
Winning margin
2,41,177
41.8% of votes
Total votes cast
5,83,745
Candidates
11
Seat history
All Candidates
11 total| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ram Tahal Choudhary | NDA (NDA) | 3,79,261 | 65.7% |
| 2 | K K Tewari | 1,38,084 | 23.9% | |
| 3 | Prem Chand Mahto | 39,021 | 6.8% | |
| 4 | Anant Prasad Gupta | CPI(ML)(L) | 6,306 | 1.1% |
| 5 | Napendra Krishna Mahto |  FBL | 4,732 | 0.8% |
| 6 | Agni Pandey | IND | 2,890 | 0.5% |
| 7 | Mahesh Kumar | 2,674 | 0.5% | |
| 8 | Fransis Sarwan | IND | 1,675 | 0.3% |
| 9 | Ajay Rai | AJBP | 1,046 | 0.2% |
| 10 | Madan Munda | IND | 818 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Matuwar Ram | IND | 583 | 0.1% |
Affidavit details — declared assets, criminal cases and education — aren't available for this seat yet. The results above are complete; only the candidate-affidavit layer is missing.
An essentially two-way race.
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How safe is this seat?
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safe41.8%
— NOT REPORTEDmean 18.2% · min 0.1% · max 41.8%
How contested is turnout?
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52%
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How crowded is the field?
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2.02
fewer partiesmore parties
How much NOTA?
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— NOT REPORTEDHow often does it back the winner?
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neveralways
matches the ruling party
How did the vote split?
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2.02EFFECTIVE PARTIES
BJP 65.7%INC 23.9%JMM 6.8%OTH 3.6%
Who ran, on record?
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— NOT YET COMPUTEDHistorical constituency — last contested in 1999. Redrawn or abolished in a later delimitation, so it has no present-day district or state context; its full territorial history is above and in the Seat-history drawer.