SheikhpuraAssembly by-election result, 1998
Sanjay Kumar (INC) won Sheikhpura in the 1998 assembly by-election with 76.4% of the vote, beating Jitendra Nath (CPI) by 62,009 votes.
Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1972, seat no. 191 was Mokameh. Seats were renumbered for the 2005 election, after Jharkhand became a separate state. From 2005, seat no. 191 is Dinapur. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.
Winner
A comfortable win — Sanjay Kumar won by 57.6%.
Seat history
All Candidates
5 candidates| # | Candidate | Party | Votes · %Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sanjay Kumar | 82,25676.4% | |
| 2 | Jitendra Nath | 20,24718.8% | |
| 3 | Habibur Rahman | 3,1753.0% | |
| 4 | Kisundeo Singh CPI(ML)(L) | CPI(ML)(L) | 1,3831.3% |
| 5 | Surendra Kumar | 5880.6% |
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A comfortable margin, an essentially two-way race.
How safe is this seat?
winning margin, share of votes
How many parties were really in the race?
INC and CPI took 95% of the votes.
Parties in the race 1.61 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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