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Bihar · Assembly Constituency 139

PurneaAssembly by-election result, 1998

Madhvi Sarkar (CPM) won Purnea in the 1998 assembly by-election with 50.1% of the vote, beating Sudhir Prasad Choudhary (BJP) by 28,267 votes.

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Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1972, seat no. 139 was Rajmahal. It kept its number when seats were renumbered in 2005, after Jharkhand became a separate state. Seat boundaries were redrawn after 2005. From 2010, seat no. 139 is Rosera. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.

Winner

Madhvi Sarkar
CPM
CPM 50.1%BJP 19.0%10 others 30.9%
Votes
45,541
50.1% share
Winning margin
28,267
31.1% of votes
Candidates
12

A comfortable win — Madhvi Sarkar won by 31.1%.

Seat history

All Candidates

12 candidates
#CandidatePartyVotes · %
1
Madhvi Sarkar
CPM
CPM
45,54150.1%
2
Sudhir Prasad Choudhary
BJP
BJP
17,27419.0%
3
Amarnath Tiwari
INC
INC
12,00313.2%
4
Ram Charitra Yadav
IND
IND
6,4657.1%
5
Intekhab Alam
SJP(R)
SJP(R)
6,0576.7%
6
Kamal Kishor Yadav
BJC
BJC
1,3271.5%
7
Sampat Lal Oraon
IND
IND
5330.6%
8
Jitendra Kumar
IND
IND
4580.5%
9
Shaligram Yadav
IND
IND
3560.4%
10
Sanjeev Kumar alias Raju Jha
IND
IND
3330.4%
11
Hari Om Jha
IND
IND
3320.4%
12
Mahendra Gupta
IND
IND
2100.2%

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A comfortable margin, a fragmented field.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
31.1%

winning margin, share of votes

How many parties were really in the race?

SEAT
A crowded field

The top three took 82% of the votes.

Parties in the race 3.18

How did the vote split?

SEAT
50.1%won by CPM
CPM 50.1%BJP 19.0%INC 13.2%IND 7.1%SJP(R) 6.7%Others 3.9%

This seat number was reused from 2010. The district data on file describe the seat as contested from 2010, so they are not shown for earlier elections.

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Who has won Purnea, 1977–2005

  1. 1977DEV NATH ROY (JNP), margin 7.7%
  2. 1980AJIT CHAND SARKAR (CPM), margin 16.5%
  3. 1985AJIT CHANDRAS (CPM), margin 12.5%
  4. 1990AJIT SARKAR (CPM), margin 27.2%
  5. 1995AJIT SARKAR (CPM), margin 1.4%
  6. 2000RAJ KISHORE KESRI (BJP), margin 10.1%
  7. 2005 (Feb)RAJ KISHORE KESHRI (BJP), margin 1.0%
  8. 2005 (Oct)RAJ KISHORE KESHRI (BJP), margin 13.9%