Constituency
87. Godda
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-GODDA
BJP 35.9%won by 9.0%JD 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 9.0%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 29.4% to 35.9% of the vote here (+6.5%).
- New challengerJanata Dal (JD) finished second with 26.8% — it did not contest here in 1991.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.7% between them, down from 78.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.4% to 57.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,83,740
Turnout
57.3%
Valid votes
6,21,093
Margin
56,185
9.05%
Candidates
23 contested · winner BJP- 1JAGDAMBI PRASAD YADAVBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,22,86635.9%
- 2SALAUDDIN ANSARIJanata Dal · JD1,66,68126.8%
- 3SURAJ MANDALJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,23,84819.9%
- 4FURKAN ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC62,68810.1%
- 5PANCHANAND THAKURIndependent · IND15,9812.6%
- 6PRABHAS KUMARIndependent · IND9,7491.6%
- 7NAWAL KISHORE SINGHIndependent · IND7,8771.3%
- 8RAJENDRA MAHTOIndependent · IND2,1560.3%
- 9DINESH MISHRAIndependent · IND9600.2%
- 10DASHRATH SORENIndependent · IND9430.2%
- 11JAI KRISHNA YADAVIndependent · IND9190.1%
- 12KALAMUDDIN ANSARIIndependent · IND8710.1%
- 13NAZIMUDINIndependent · IND8450.1%
- 14JAHANGIRIndependent · IND6930.1%
- 15SUJIT KR. YADAVIndependent · IND5600.1%
- 16HEMLAL SORENIndependent · IND5410.1%
- 17KAUSAL KISHORE MISHRAIndependent · IND5140.1%
- 18SITARAM RAOUTIndependent · IND5130.1%
- 19RAVIRAN SINGHIndependent · IND4510.1%
- 20INDRA DEO ROYIndependent · IND4110.1%
- 21MAZIDIndependent · IND3550.1%
- 22JAI PRAKASH SINGHIndependent · IND3460.1%
- 23BADRINATH CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND3250.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- JMM
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–JD swing
- −20.3%
- BJP share
- 29.4% → 35.9%
- JD share
- 0.0% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- 54.9% → 57.3%