Constituency
24. Gopalganj
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1995
BR-GOPALGANJ
JD 50.6%won by 29.0%INC 21.6%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 55.3% to 29.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 22.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.2% between them, down from 91.5% — 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
99,627
Margin
28,905
29.01%
Candidates
16 contested · winner JD- 1RAMAWTARJanata Dal · JD50,40750.6%
- 2PUTUL DEBIIndian National Congress · INC21,50221.6%
- 3ANAND MOHANIndependent · IND16,67316.7%
- 4SATYDEO SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,0916.1%
- 5SADANAND SINGHSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1,6901.7%
- 6RAMNARAYAN BALTI BABAIndependent · IND7690.8%
- 7BANKE LAL PRASADBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4930.5%
- 8JYOTI BHUSHAN SINGHIndependent · IND3950.4%
- 9JAI NATH SAHIndependent · IND3010.3%
- 10JALESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND2810.3%
- 11RAM UDAY PANDITDDP · DDP2710.3%
- 12SURESH MISHRAIndependent · IND2680.3%
- 13NIZAMUDIN KHANIndependent · IND2020.2%
- 14NOOR ALAM RAJIndependent · IND1510.2%
- 15HARE RAM GUPTAIndependent · IND790.1%
- 16AKHILESH KUMAR RAIIndependent · IND540.1%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–INC swing
- −38.2%
- JD share
- 73.4% → 50.6%
- INC share
- 6.2% → 21.6%
- Turnout
- — → —