Constituency
99. Gaya
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-GAYA
BJS 44.9%won by 2.9%INC 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 2.9%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 17.9% to 44.9% of the vote here (+27.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.8% of the vote between them, up from 52.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.7% to 45.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,39,404
Turnout
45.9%
Valid votes
2,47,558
Margin
7,099
2.87%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJS- 1ISHWAR CHOUDHARYBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,11,03844.9%
- 2SURESH KUMARIndian National Congress · INC1,03,93942.0%
- 3ISHWAR DASSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP14,7816.0%
- 4SUKHDEO PRASADHindvi Swarajyay Dal · HSD6,9902.8%
- 5RAMANAND PRASAD MOCHIIndependent · IND2,8531.2%
- 6CHHOTU RAMIndependent · IND2,3811.0%
- 7DULI MOCHIIndependent · IND1,9970.8%
- 8RAMDHANI DASNCO · NCO1,4100.6%
- 9DHARAM PRASADIndependent · IND1,2590.5%
- 10YASODA DEVIIndependent · IND9100.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +19.7%
- BJS share
- 17.9% → 44.9%
- INC share
- 34.7% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- 42.2% → 45.9%