TarapurAssembly by-election result, 1998
Parvati Devi (SAP) won Tarapur in the 1998 assembly by-election with 43.7% of the vote, beating Sushil Kumar Singh (RJD) by 2,012 votes.
Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1972, seat no. 179 was Kharagpur. Seats were renumbered for the 2005 election, after Jharkhand became a separate state. From 2005, seat no. 179 is Islampur. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.
Winner
A closely fought contest. Parvati Devi won with a 2.1% margin.
Seat history
All Candidates
14 candidates| # | Candidate | Party | Votes · %Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parvati Devi | 41,61243.7% | |
| 2 | Sushil Kumar Singh | 39,60041.6% | |
| 3 | Meera Devi IND | IND | 5,1465.4% |
| 4 | Sumitra Devi IND | IND | 1,8601.9% |
| 5 | Utam Singh | 1,4891.6% | |
| 6 | Lok Prakash Singh IND | IND | 1,3831.4% |
| 7 | Surendra Yadav IND | IND | 9951.1% |
| 8 | Binay Choudhary IND | IND | 9481.0% |
| 9 | Triveni Yadav IND | IND | 6240.7% |
| 10 | Vadri Vishal Yadav IND | IND | 4570.5% |
| 11 | Vijay Kumar Singh IND | IND | 3440.4% |
| 12 | Mahesha Nand Jha IND | IND | 3240.3% |
| 13 | Uttam Kumar Singh | 2210.2% | |
| 14 | Prakash Singh IND | IND | 1940.2% |
Results are complete; affidavit details aren't available for this seat yet.
A close contest, a two-to-three-way race.
How safe is this seat?
winning margin, share of votes
How many parties were really in the race?
SAP, RJD and an independent took 91% of the votes.
Parties in the race 2.72 Effective number of parties — counts each party by its share of the vote.
How did the vote split?
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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