Constituency
102. Gaya
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-GAYA
JD 46.6%won by 9.5%BJP 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.8% to 9.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.8% between them, down from 92.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.9% to 59.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,65,862
Turnout
59.2%
Valid votes
6,30,883
Margin
59,623
9.45%
Candidates
19 contested · winner JD- 1BHAGWATI DEVIJanata Dal · JD2,94,08446.6%
- 2KRISHNA KUMAR CHOUDHARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,34,46137.2%
- 3RAM SAWROOP RAMIndian National Congress · INC78,34712.4%
- 4SURENDAR DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9,7701.5%
- 5NIRANJAN KUMARCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4,9510.8%
- 6NARESH PRASAD CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND2,2880.4%
- 7GAREEBAN DASIndependent · IND1,3410.2%
- 8VASUDEO RABIDASIndependent · IND1,1870.2%
- 9RAJENDAR MANJHIIndependent · IND6370.1%
- 10KISHORI RAMIndependent · IND6300.1%
- 11AWADHES PASWANIndependent · IND6180.1%
- 12DINESH PASWANIndependent · IND5930.1%
- 13SUDAMA PRASADIndependent · IND4030.1%
- 14RAJ KUMAR PRASADIndependent · IND3340.1%
- 15LAXMAN CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND2800.0%
- 16SIDHNATH PASWANIndependent · IND2670.0%
- 17G.S RAMCHANDAR DASAIICT · AIICT2600.0%
- 18VINAY KUMAR AMBEDKARIndependent · IND2390.0%
- 19RAMDEO AARYAIndependent · IND1930.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–BJP swing
- −35.8%
- JD share
- 50.4% → 46.6%
- BJP share
- 5.2% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- 63.1% → 59.2%