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Kodarma, Bihar — Lok Sabha Election Results

Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30

Kodarma (Bihar) was won by Tilakdhari Pd Singh (Indian National Congress) at the 1999 Lok Sabha general election, with a margin of 10,178 votes over Ritlal Prasad Verma. This page covers every Lok Sabha general election in Kodarma, Bihar, from 1977 to 1999.

Full Election History, 1977–1999

Election Winner Party Votes Vote Share Runner-up Margin
1977 Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Lok Dal 169,387 67.3% Chaplendu Bhattacharyyia (Indian National Congress) 116,028 (46.1 pts)
1980 Reet Lal Pd. Verma Janata Party 108,236 40.7% Javed Warsi (Congress (I)) 22,366 (8.4 pts)
1984 Tilak Dhari Singh Indian National Congress 208,731 58.8% Ritlal Pd. Verma (Bharatiya Janata Party) 111,383 (31.4 pts)
1989 Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 243,805 45.5% Tilakdhari Prasad Singh (Indian National Congress) 102,294 (19.1 pts)
1991 Mumtaz Ansari Janata Dal 162,419 33.2% Ritlal Prasad Verma (Bharatiya Janata Party) 14,122 (2.9 pts)
1996 Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 243,295 39.4% Ramesh Prasad Yadav (Janata Dal) 46,954 (7.6 pts)
1998 Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 280,635 42.1% Avid Hussain (Rashtriya Janata Dal) 97,911 (14.7 pts)
1999 Tilakdhari Pd Singh Indian National Congress 273,808 46.0% Ritlal Prasad Verma (Bharatiya Janata Party) 10,178 (1.7 pts)

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1977

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Lok Dal 169,387 67.3%
Chaplendu Bhattacharyyia Indian National Congress 53,359 21.2%
Ram Narain Prasad Yadav Communist Party of India 21,377 8.5%
Johan Marandi Independent 7,412 2.9%

1980

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Reet Lal Pd. Verma Janata Party 108,236 40.7%
Javed Warsi Congress (I) 85,870 32.3%
Shankar Dayal Singh Congress (U) 31,375 11.8%
Kharagdhari Singh Independent 23,072 8.7%
Laxmi Kant Sa Independent 5,953 2.2%
Girija Nandan Pd. Sinha Independent 4,605 1.7%
Ganpat Rai Independent 2,608 1.0%
Arun Rai Independent 2,246 0.8%
Surya Narain Ram Independent 2,124 0.8%

1984

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Tilak Dhari Singh Indian National Congress 208,731 58.8%
Ritlal Pd. Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 97,348 27.4%
Md. Enamul Haque Independent 10,453 2.9%
Biswanath Modi Janata Party 10,057 2.8%
Nand Lal Gope Independent 7,392 2.1%
Ram Kishore Mehta Independent 5,639 1.6%
Pradeep Kumar Sarkar JMM 4,470 1.3%
Dinesh Singh Independent 3,155 0.9%
Abuinam Akhtar Independent 1,974 0.6%
Indra Kumar Agarwal Independent 1,951 0.6%
Sudha Rani Sinha Independent 1,903 0.5%
Yugal Kishore Pd. ICJ 1,043 0.3%
Burhan Sahu Independent 570 0.2%

1989

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 243,805 45.5%
Tilakdhari Prasad Singh Indian National Congress 141,511 26.4%
Saba Ahmad JMM 111,029 20.7%
Mahedra Prasad Singh Independent 30,788 5.7%
Karu Choudhary DDP 3,190 0.6%
Tribeni Rai Independent 2,248 0.4%
Sukhdeo Paswan Independent 1,923 0.4%
Sudha Rani Sinha Independent 1,694 0.3%

1991

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Mumtaz Ansari Janata Dal 162,419 33.2%
Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 148,297 30.3%
Tilakdhari Prasad Singh Indian National Congress 128,003 26.1%
Mahendra Pd. Singh IPF 31,805 6.5%
Adibuzama Rizvi Janata Party 2,104 0.4%
Jagdish Ram DDP 1,768 0.4%
Balgovind Pd. Yadav SKD 1,763 0.4%
Khwaja Isnain Imam Independent 1,639 0.3%
Rajendra Pd. Singh Independent 1,126 0.2%
Raghunath Tiwari JKP 1,113 0.2%
Tribeni Roy Independent 971 0.2%
Nazmuddin Khan Independent 868 0.2%
Laxman Choudhary Independent 796 0.2%
Sukhdeo Soren Independent 777 0.2%
Sachidanand Singh Independent 736 0.2%
Somar Singh Independent 733 0.1%
Parmeshwar Singh Independent 709 0.1%
Ravikant Bhadani Independent 690 0.1%
Nayeem Rahi Independent 616 0.1%
Gajanand Singh BKUS 522 0.1%
Ganesh Mahto Independent 487 0.1%
Chandrika Pandey Independent 468 0.1%
Babulal Mahto Bahujan Samaj Party 434 0.1%
Bhim Prasad Gupta Independent 372 0.1%
Sandeep Kumar Singh Independent 322 0.1%
Surya Narayan Ram Independent 148 0.0%

1996

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 243,295 39.4%
Ramesh Prasad Yadav Janata Dal 196,341 31.8%
Umesh Chandra Agarwal Indian National Congress 69,230 11.2%
Salkhan Soren JMM 49,542 8.0%
Mohan Datta CPI (ML) Liberation 19,202 3.1%
Sadan Ram AIIC(T) 4,629 0.8%
Kishundeo Mandal Independent 3,646 0.6%
Jon Kisku Independent 3,454 0.6%
Raghunandan Singh Independent 3,322 0.5%
T.P Bhardwaj Independent 3,123 0.5%
Krishna Narayan Independent 3,094 0.5%
Parmanand Singh Bahujan Samaj Party 3,081 0.5%
Jagdish Ram Independent 2,420 0.4%
Ramdhani Raut Independent 2,339 0.4%
Balgobind Ram Independent 1,849 0.3%
Umesh Chandra Trivedi Independent 1,689 0.3%
Jainulmian Independent 1,168 0.2%
Surat Deo Yadav Independent 1,055 0.2%
Manmohan Tiwari Independent 892 0.1%
Ranjit Kumar Varnwal Independent 885 0.1%
Gajanand Singh Independent 743 0.1%
Vishwanath Pathak Independent 721 0.1%
Chaturbhuj Na. Deo Independent 377 0.1%
Inamul Haque Independent 362 0.1%
Chhatrapati Vishwakarma Independent 290 0.0%
Ashok Rai Independent 157 0.0%

1998

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 280,635 42.1%
Avid Hussain Rashtriya Janata Dal 182,724 27.4%
Tilakdhari Pd. Singh Indian National Congress 122,478 18.4%
Gauttam Sagar Rana Janata Dal 47,116 7.1%
Mahandera Prasad Singh CPI (ML) Liberation 29,831 4.5%
Shakeel Akhtar AIMF 2,480 0.4%
Manohar Prasad Bhadani BJC 1,904 0.3%

1999

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Tilakdhari Pd Singh Indian National Congress 273,808 46.0%
Ritlal Prasad Verma Bharatiya Janata Party 263,630 44.3%
Nazmul Hasan CPI (ML) Liberation 21,100 3.5%
Dr Mumtaj Ansari Nationalist Congress Party 19,587 3.3%
Bhagwat Rana JMM 9,037 1.5%
Aftab Ahmad Bahujan Samaj Party 3,149 0.5%
Samsad Ahmad Janata Party 2,014 0.3%
Wakil Narayan Independent 1,369 0.2%
Ramdeo Mahtha Independent 1,303 0.2%

Margin Over Time

Winning margin (percentage points) at each election, coloured by the winning party's broad bloc (Congress / BJP / Left / other).

1977: Bharatiya Lok Dal margin 46.1 pts 1980: Janata Party margin 8.4 pts 1984: Indian National Congress margin 31.4 pts 1989: Bharatiya Janata Party margin 19.1 pts 1991: Janata Dal margin 2.9 pts 1996: Bharatiya Janata Party margin 7.6 pts 1998: Bharatiya Janata Party margin 14.7 pts 1999: Indian National Congress margin 1.7 pts 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 1998 1999

Trend

Kodarma has been contested at 8 Lok Sabha general elections on record since 1977. Parties that have won this seat over that span: Bharatiya Lok Dal, Janata Party, Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, Janata Dal.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Kodarma in the 1999 Lok Sabha election?

Tilakdhari Pd Singh (Indian National Congress) won Kodarma, Bihar, in 1999 with 273,808 votes (46.0%), a margin of 10,178 votes over Ritlal Prasad Verma.

Which parties have won Kodarma since 1977?

Since 1977, Kodarma has been won by: Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Indian National Congress, Janata Dal, Janata Party.

What was the closest result in Kodarma?

The closest result on record for Kodarma was 1999, when Indian National Congress beat Bharatiya Janata Party by just 10,178 votes (1.7 percentage points).

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