Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
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Won
Nitish Kumar
JDU Janata Dal (United)Margin
1,02,396 11.4 pp
votes
over Dr. Kumar Pushpanjay (LJSP)
The contest
Electors13,11,971
Votes polled8,95,089
Turnout68.2%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.84 L52.1% of electorate
Female electors6.28 L47.9% of electorate
Sex ratio
919females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nitish Kumar | JDU | 4,71,310 | 52.70% | |
| 2 | Dr. Kumar Pushpanjay | LJSP | 3,68,914 | 41.20% | |
| 3 | Permanand Prasad | CPIML | 19,124 | 2.10% | |
| 4 | Ram Prawesh Prasad | BSP | 16,489 | 1.80% | |
| 5 | Jageshwar Yadav | SP | 4,479 | 0.50% | |
| 6 | Rajesh Kumar | IND | 3,440 | 0.40% | |
| 7 | Jyoteshwar Kumar Sharma | IND | 2,366 | 0.30% | |
| 8 | Nawal Kishore Singh | IND | 2,105 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | Arun Kumar Mehta | IND | 1,826 | 0.20% | |
| 10 | Bajang Prasad Kesari | RSD | 1,782 | 0.20% | |
| 11 | Mohan Saw | IND | 1,344 | 0.20% | |
| 12 | Chandra Bhushan Kumar | IND | 1,051 | 0.10% | |
| 13 | Shiv Shankar Prasad | SS | 886 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is -27, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 895,116 · NOTA n/a · published 895,089 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004
- Publisher
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- 2026-09-12