Constituency
63. Gopalganj
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-GOPALGANJ
JD 44.1%won by 17.7%INC 26.5%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.1% to 17.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.6% between them, down from 84.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 15.3% to 58.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,59,352
Turnout
58.3%
Valid votes
6,75,976
Margin
1,19,496
17.68%
Candidates
22 contested · winner JD- 1LAL BABU PD. YADAVJanata Dal · JD2,98,35644.1%
- 2KALI PRASAD PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC1,78,86026.5%
- 3ABDUL GAFFURSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1,51,41822.4%
- 4SANTRAJ SINGHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL22,4203.3%
- 5NARESH KUMAR PARMARTHIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,2430.8%
- 6TIRTHRAJ SINGHIndependent · IND3,2650.5%
- 7GORAKH CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND3,2270.5%
- 8ASHOK KUMARIndependent · IND2,8080.4%
- 9JULPHEKAR HAIDARIndependent · IND1,3520.2%
- 10NOOR ALAM RAJIndependent · IND1,2670.2%
- 11KANHIYA SINGHPSSS · PSSS1,1660.2%
- 12MAHAVIR THAKURIndependent · IND8300.1%
- 13BALBHADRA PATELIndependent · IND7230.1%
- 14ROSHAN HUSSANIndependent · IND7080.1%
- 15NIZAMUDDIN KHANIndependent · IND7020.1%
- 16VISHNUDEO SINGHIndependent · IND6850.1%
- 17RAVINDRA CHAUDHARYIndependent · IND5850.1%
- 18TUMNATH PRASADShiv Sena · SHS5200.1%
- 19SHARDA BHARTIIndependent · IND5070.1%
- 20RAGHUNATH PANDEYIndependent · IND4980.1%
- 21KESHAV PRASADIndependent · IND4340.1%
- 22BINDESHWAR SINGHIndependent · IND4020.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–INC swing
- +1.5%
- JD share
- 50.3% → 44.1%
- INC share
- 34.2% → 26.5%
- Turnout
- 73.6% → 58.3%