Constituency
185. Gorakhpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1989
UP-GORAKHPUR
BJP 38.8%won by 15.1%BSP 23.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 15.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 31.4% to 38.8% of the vote here (+7.5%).
- New challengerBahujan Samaj Party (BSP) finished second with 23.7% — it did not contest here in 1985.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.6% between them, down from 84.5% — 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
71,872
Margin
10,867
15.12%
Candidates
24 contested · winner BJP- 1SHIV PRATAP SHUKLABharatiya Janata Party · BJP27,91338.8%
- 2ZAFARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP17,04623.7%
- 3SUNIL SHASTRIIndian National Congress · INC12,45317.3%
- 4ASHOK KUMAR SRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND4,3196.0%
- 5RAMDASHMS · HMS4,3136.0%
- 6KAMAAL AHMAD KHANIndependent · IND1,1751.6%
- 7AUSAF AHMAD SIDDIQIJanata Party · JNP1,0181.4%
- 8JITA KAURIPF · IPF5760.8%
- 9KRISHAN MORYADDP · DDP4360.6%
- 10VIJAY KUMAR SINHAIndependent · IND3920.5%
- 11SHUMS ANWARIndependent · IND3900.5%
- 12PARVEZ PARWAJMUM · MUM3890.5%
- 13PREMNATHRPI · RPI3480.5%
- 14TAHAVVUR HUSAINIndependent · IND2410.3%
- 15SUBHASH CHAND SHARMAIndependent · IND1300.2%
- 16KAPIL DEVIndependent · IND1230.2%
- 17MISWAHUDDIN VARSIIndependent · IND990.1%
- 18VINOD KUMARIndependent · IND900.1%
- 19SUVASIndependent · IND850.1%
- 20RAMASREY LALIndependent · IND840.1%
- 21MAHENDER KUMARIndependent · IND810.1%
- 22RAMNARAYANIndependent · IND680.1%
- 23ANIL KUMARIndependent · IND600.1%
- 24HAIDER ALISDP · SDP430.1%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BSP swing
- −16.3%
- BJP share
- 31.4% → 38.8%
- BSP share
- 0.0% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- — → —