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454. Gorakhpur

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Uttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-GORAKHPUR

BJP 41.1%won by 1.1%SP 40.0%

What changed here

Derived

Bharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.2% to 1.1%.

  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
12,61,260
Turnout
51.6%
Valid votes
6,50,545
Margin
7,339
1.13%

Candidates

10 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1Aditya NathBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,67,38241.1%
  2. 2Jamuna Prasad NishadSamajwadi Party · SP2,60,04340.0%
  3. 3D P YadavBahujan Samaj Party · BSP93,85214.4%
  4. 4Dr Jamal AhamdIndian National Congress · INC20,0263.1%
  5. 5Bankey LalJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS2,7230.4%
  6. 6Ashfaq AhmadNew Labour Party · NLP2,0600.3%
  7. 7Pushpa DeviIndependent · IND2,0490.3%
  8. 8Ram UgrahIndependent · IND1,1530.2%
  9. 9Dr Vijay Kumar SinhaAJBP · AJBP8440.1%
  10. 10Bashisht Narayan ShuklaIndependent · IND4130.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJP
Winner now
BJP
BJP–SP swing
−3.0%
BJP share
42.6% → 41.1%
SP share
38.5% → 40.0%
Turnout
50.5% → 51.6%
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