Constituency
63. Gopalganj
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-GOPALGANJ
SAP 45.7%won by 9.7%RJD 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP), which now leads by 9.7%.
- SAP vote shareSAP went from 22.4% to 45.7% of the vote here (+23.3%).
- New challengerRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished second with 35.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.6% of the vote between them, up from 70.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,76,915
Turnout
59.9%
Valid votes
7,05,063
Margin
68,605
9.73%
Candidates
6 contested · winner SAP- 1ABDUL GHAFOORSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP3,22,01245.7%
- 2LAL BABU PD. YADAVRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,53,40735.9%
- 3KALI PRASAD PANDEYBJC · BJC87,47812.4%
- 4SATRAJ SINGHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL35,7325.1%
- 5CHHATHU SAHIndependent · IND3,6400.5%
- 6S.M.SAGIRIndependent · IND2,7940.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- SAPflipped
- SAP–RJD swing
- −12.7%
- SAP share
- 22.4% → 45.7%
- RJD share
- 0.0% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- 58.3% → 59.9%