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Ranchi

Name: Ranchi
Address: IN

Lok Sabha General Election 1996

← Lok Sabha General Election 1996 ·

1,126,150

Electors

598,925

Votes polled

53.18%

Turnout

39,292

Margin

Winner

Ram Tahal Choudhary

Male

Rank	Candidate	Party	Total	Share
1	Ram Tahal Choudhary Won Male	BJP	215,278	35.94%
2	Keshwa Mahto Kamlesh Male	INC	175,986	29.38%
3	Ashok Kumar Singh Male	JD	158,449	26.46%
4	Bhagwan Pd. Bhagat Male	JMM	11,504	1.92%
5	Francis Sarbas Male	IND	7,831	1.31%
6	Jitray Mahto Male	IND	5,584	0.93%
7	Ashish Kr. Thakur Male	JMM(M)	3,913	0.65%
8	Sukhnath Munda Male	IND	2,882	0.48%
9	Akhamar Ansari Male	IND	2,506	0.42%
10	Uday Shankar Prasad Male	IND	2,030	0.34%
11	Sadhu Lal Munda Male	PSSS	1,792	0.30%
12	Balbhadra Das Male	IND	1,440	0.24%
13	Radhyshyam Singh Male	JKP	1,196	0.20%
14	Jakaria Male	ABLTASJM	1,111	0.19%
15	Chhatrapati Shahi Munda Male	AIIC(T)	1,102	0.18%
16	Rajendra Mahto Male	JKPP	1,026	0.17%
17	Bisheswar Mahto Male	IND	962	0.16%
18	Niranjan Kumar Male	IND	785	0.13%
19	Unit Kishor Sahu Male	IND	731	0.12%
20	Jayram Tiwary Male	IND	554	0.09%
21	Kanhai Lal Singh Male	IND	551	0.09%
22	Sona Ram Biruwa Male	IND	517	0.09%
23	Sushil Sharma Male	IND	351	0.06%
24	Sanjay Kumar Nag Male	IND	330	0.06%
25	Rajeshwar Pandey Male	IND	259	0.04%
26	Ajit Kumar Male	IND	255	0.04%

Overall vote % (Pie)

EVM voters — male vs female

Gender-wise turnout is not available for this constituency.

Year	Winner	Vote share	Runner-up	Vote share
1999	Ram Tahal Choudhary Male BJP	65.72%	K K Tewari Male INC	23.93%
1998	Ramtahal Choudhary Male BJP	58.12%	Keshav Mahto Kamlesh Male INC	37.16%
1996	Ram Tahal Choudhary Male BJP	35.94%	Keshwa Mahto Kamlesh Male INC	29.38%
1991	Ram Tahal Choudhary Male BJP	48.47%	Awadhesh Kumar Singh Male JD	22.57%
1989	Subodh Kant Sahay Male JD	35.16%	Ram Tahal Choudhary Male BJP	31.94%
1984	Sheo Prasad Sahu Male INC	49.47%	Ram Tahal Chowdhary Male BJP	16.51%
1980	Shiva Prasad Sahu Male INC(I)	38.66%	Shiva Kumar Sinha Male JnP	24.82%
1977	Ravindra Verma Male BLD	49.02%	Sheo Prasad Sahu Male INC	25.54%
1971	Prashant Kumar Ghosh Male INC	43.32%	Rudra Pratap Sarangi Male BJS	34.37%
1967	P. K. Ghosh Male INC	19.56%	A. N. S. Sinha Male BJS	17.11%