Constituency
169. Gopalpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1977
BR-GOPALPUR
CPI 31.0%won by 5.0%JNP 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 31.0% of the vote here (+31.0%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.0% between them, down from 83.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
64,085
Margin
3,214
5.02%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPI- 1MANI RAM SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI19,86031.0%
- 2ANIL PRASAD YADAVJanata Party · JNP16,64626.0%
- 3MADAN PRASAD SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,88420.1%
- 4SHASHIBUSHAN DASIndependent · IND10,05815.7%
- 5LAKHANLAL YADAVCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,9233.0%
- 6FUL PANDEYIndependent · IND1,2011.9%
- 7CHANDRADEO SINGHIndependent · IND8901.4%
- 8SUBODH PRASAD SINGHIndependent · IND4990.8%
- 9UMASHANKAR MABAIDIAIndependent · IND1240.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–JNP swing
- +5.0%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 31.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —