Constituency
78. Gahpur
Community mirrorAssam · Assam Assembly Election, 2016
AS-GAHPUR
BJP 58.3%won by 19.7%INC 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 19.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 1.9% to 58.3% of the vote here (+56.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.8% of the vote between them, up from 65.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.8% to 85.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,71,284
Turnout
85.6%
Valid votes
1,46,618
Margin
28,935
19.73%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1UTPAL BORAHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP85,42458.3%
- 2MONIKA BORAIndian National Congress · INC56,48938.5%
- 3None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,6211.1%
- 4HALAN PURTTICpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,1890.8%
- 5SABIR NARZARYIndependent · IND9670.7%
- 6DEBEN SAIKIAIndependent · IND9280.6%
Since 2011
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +64.5%
- BJP share
- 1.9% → 58.3%
- INC share
- 46.7% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- 80.8% → 85.6%