Constituency
169. Gopalpur
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 2000
BR-GOPALPUR
RJD 50.8%won by 13.5%SAP 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 13.5%.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 0.0% to 50.8% of the vote here (+50.8%).
- New challengerSamajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) finished second with 37.4% — it polled just 1.9% in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.2% of the vote between them, up from 61.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,33,438
Margin
17,965
13.46%
Candidates
10 contested · winner RJD- 1RABINDRA KR. RANARashtriya Janata Dal · RJD67,81350.8%
- 2NARENDAR KR. NIRAJSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP49,84837.4%
- 3MAHABIR MANDALCommunist Party of India · CPI7,5945.7%
- 4RAJENDRA YADAVSamajwadi Party · SP3,0282.3%
- 5VATESHWARI MANDALIndian National Congress · INC3,0252.3%
- 6JWALA PRASAD SINGHBHJC · BHJC1,2190.9%
- 7JAI PRAKASH YADAVIndependent · IND3390.3%
- 8ARUN KR. RUGTAIndependent · IND2230.2%
- 9YADUNANDAN YADAVIndependent · IND1870.1%
- 10RAMANAND SINGHIndependent · IND1620.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–SAP swing
- +15.4%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 50.8%
- SAP share
- 1.9% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- — → —