Constituency
440. Gorakhpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-GORAKHPUR
HMS 42.8%won by 10.1%JD 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to HMS (HMS), which now leads by 10.1%.
- HMS vote shareHMS went from 0.0% to 42.8% of the vote here (+42.8%).
- New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 32.6% — it did not contest here in 1984.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,72,461
Turnout
52.0%
Valid votes
4,53,341
Margin
45,837
10.11%
Candidates
8 contested · winner HMS- 1AVEDYA NATHHMS · HMS1,93,82142.8%
- 2RAMPAL SINGHJanata Dal · JD1,47,98432.6%
- 3MADAN PANDEIndian National Congress · INC58,31912.9%
- 4SHAHJAHANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP40,1528.9%
- 5VIJAI NARAINDDP · DDP6,3531.4%
- 6SUBHASH CHANDRA SHARMAIndependent · IND2,3320.5%
- 7RAMAKANT PANDESOP · SOP2,2920.5%
- 8JAGAT DEVIndependent · IND2,0880.5%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- HMSflipped
- HMS–JD swing
- +10.1%
- HMS share
- 0.0% → 42.8%
- JD share
- 0.0% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- 53.4% → 52.0%