Constituency
63. Gopalganj
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-GOPALGANJ
JDU 49.2%won by 4.9%RJD 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) lost it to Janata Dal (United) (JDU), which now leads by 4.9%.
- JDU vote shareJDU went from 0.0% to 49.2% of the vote here (+49.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.6% of the vote between them, up from 81.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.1% to 63.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,76,915
Turnout
63.0%
Valid votes
7,41,844
Margin
36,124
4.87%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JDU- 1Raghunath JhaJanata Dal (United) · JDU3,65,10749.2%
- 2Kali Prasad PandeyRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,28,98344.3%
- 3Satraj SinghCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL29,9904.0%
- 4Chhathu SahBahujan Samaj Party · BSP11,0581.5%
- 5Ashok KumarIndependent · IND5,9080.8%
- 6Ramadhar YadavIndependent · IND7980.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- SAP
- Winner now
- JDUflipped
- JDU–RJD swing
- +40.8%
- JDU share
- 0.0% → 49.2%
- RJD share
- 35.9% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- 59.9% → 63.0%