Constituency
185. Gorakhpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
UP-GORAKHPUR
INC 39.4%won by 10.0%BJP 29.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 25.9% to 39.4% of the vote here (+13.5%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 29.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.8% between them, down from 96.7% — 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
53,492
Margin
5,328
9.96%
Candidates
21 contested · winner INC- 1SUNIL SHASTRIIndian National Congress · INC21,05639.4%
- 2HARISH CHANDRA (HARISHJI)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,72829.4%
- 3SARDAR RATTAN SINGHINCU · INCU8,46015.8%
- 4JAGDISH PRASAD GAURCommunist Party of India · CPI2,2304.2%
- 5DASHARATH TRIPATHIJNPSC · JNPSC1,6593.1%
- 6SATYA NARAINJNPSR · JNPSR9691.8%
- 7GOMTI PRASAD VAIDYAIndependent · IND6911.3%
- 8ARUN KUMARJanata Party · JNP6101.1%
- 9MISBAHUDDIN WARSIIndependent · IND4180.8%
- 10RAJENDRA KUMAR RAIIndependent · IND3150.6%
- 11YOGENDRA KUMAR THAKURIndependent · IND2980.6%
- 12RAMESH SHAHIIndependent · IND1690.3%
- 13PRADEEP KUMAR CHATTERJIIndependent · IND1480.3%
- 14JAGDISH PRASADIndependent · IND1340.3%
- 15RAM KAWAL PRASADSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD1250.2%
- 16SHAKEEL AHMADIndependent · IND1160.2%
- 17AUSAF AHMAD SIDDIQIIndependent · IND1120.2%
- 18AYODHYA PRASAD TRIPATHIIndependent · IND760.1%
- 19YOGENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND760.1%
- 20RAM KANT SHUKLAIndependent · IND600.1%
- 21H. K. ANJUMIndependent · IND420.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −15.9%
- INC share
- 25.9% → 39.4%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- — → —