Constituency
24. Gopalganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-GOPALGANJ
IND 33.6%won by 10.2%LKD 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.8% to 10.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 23.4% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.1% between them, down from 69.8% — 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
76,403
Margin
7,797
10.21%
Candidates
16 contested · winner IND- 1SURENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND25,70333.6%
- 2AMBIKA PRASAD YADAVLKD · LKD17,90623.4%
- 3SUSHILA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC11,39014.9%
- 4PARAS SINGHIndependent · IND8,19110.7%
- 5S. M. NOMANICommunist Party of India · CPI7,1099.3%
- 6BHAVESH CHANDRAJanata Party · JNP1,0561.4%
- 7PRASIDH NARAIN MISHRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,0451.4%
- 8MAKSUD ALAMIndependent · IND9871.3%
- 9RAMA SANKAR YADAVIndependent · IND9831.3%
- 10DINA NATH SAHIndependent · IND7481.0%
- 11AWADHESH TIWARIIndependent · IND5600.7%
- 12RAMDAYAL KOHARIndependent · IND2170.3%
- 13PRAHALAD SAHIndependent · IND2020.3%
- 14SHIWRAJ PRASAD GUPTAIndependent · IND1490.2%
- 15BRIJ BIHARI ROYIndependent · IND810.1%
- 16JAWAHAR PRASADIndependent · IND760.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–LKD swing
- −33.6%
- IND share
- 43.8% → 33.6%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 23.4%
- Turnout
- — → —