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100. Gaya

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991

IN-GAYA

JD 50.4%won by 8.8%INC 41.6%

What changed here

Derived

Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.0% to 8.8%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Indian National Congress (INC).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.0% of the vote between them, up from 79.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 5.9% to 63.1%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
9,69,299
Turnout
63.1%
Valid votes
6,11,227
Margin
53,795
8.80%

Candidates

14 contested · winner JD
  1. 1RAJESH KUMARJanata Dal · JD3,08,07750.4%
  2. 2JITAN RAM MANJHIIndian National Congress · INC2,54,28241.6%
  3. 3NAGIA DEVI (W)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP31,7635.2%
  4. 4NIRANJAN KUMARIPF · IPF8,2131.3%
  5. 5SURENDRA DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2490.4%
  6. 6URMILA PASWAN (W)Ics (Scs) · ICSSCS1,4920.2%
  7. 7YUGAL PASWANIndependent · IND1,1380.2%
  8. 8JITENDRA PASWANIndependent · IND1,0720.2%
  9. 9MAYDHAVI QIRTI (W)Janahitha Paksha · JP1,0030.2%
  10. 10BHOLA PASWANIndependent · IND9060.1%
  11. 11CHAMARI RAMIndependent · IND4100.1%
  12. 12VILAS MANJHIDDP · DDP2960.0%
  13. 13KRISHNA KUMAR CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND1810.0%
  14. 14B.L. MANJHIIndependent · IND1450.0%

Since 1989

Derived
Winner then
JD
Winner now
JD
JD–INC swing
−31.4%
JD share
58.6% → 50.4%
INC share
18.5% → 41.6%
Turnout
68.9% → 63.1%
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