PupriAssembly by-election result, 1998
Nawal Kishor Rai (JD) won Pupri in the 1998 assembly by-election with 57.8% of the vote, beating Shahid Ali Khan (RJD) by 25,518 votes.
Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1972, seat no. 72 was Sonbarsa. 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. 72 is Singheshwar. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.
Winner
A comfortable win — Nawal Kishor Rai won by 25.8%.
Seat history
All Candidates
8 candidates| # | Candidate | Party | Votes · %Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nawal Kishor Rai | 57,28957.8% | |
| 2 | Shahid Ali Khan | 31,77132.1% | |
| 3 | Nawal Kishor Raut | 6,6266.7% | |
| 4 | Md. Alamgir IND | IND | 1,1491.2% |
| 5 | Ram Narayan Prasad Raman IND | IND | 9220.9% |
| 6 | Md. Anwar Tyagi IND | IND | 6990.7% |
| 7 | Sitaram Jha IND | IND | 5400.5% |
| 8 | Ram Shresht Singh IND | IND | 1030.1% |
Results are complete; affidavit details aren't available for this seat yet.
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?
JD and RJD took 90% of the votes.
Parties in the race 2.26 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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Who has won Pupri, 1977–2005
- 1977HABIB AHMAD (JNP), margin 1.0%
- 1980RAMBRIKSHA CHOUDHARY (INC(U)), margin 25.4%
- 1985RAM BRIKSH CHAUDHARY (INC), margin 24.0%
- 1990SITA RAM YADAV (JD), margin 8.6%
- 1995SITARAM YADAV (JD), margin 18.2%
- 2000SITA RAM YADAV (RJD), margin 0.8%
- 2005 (Feb)SHAHID ALI KHAN (JD(U)), margin 3.8%
- 2005 (Oct)SHAHID ALI KHAN (JD(U)), margin 6.9%