Elections Archive

GEN · Uttar Pradesh 1947 1999

Gorakhpur

Madan Pandey (INC) won by 96,600 votes (25.8%).

Electors
7,00,548
Votes polled
3,81,518
Valid votes
Turnout
54.5%
NOTA
0

Margin vs 1984 national median: 25.8% (median 17.9%). Back to Uttar Pradesh 1947 1999 · 1984 national · Target seats

Seat health

Margin band, turnout swing, NOTA, and history for campaign defence / attack reads.

Knife-edge (<2%)Party held vs 1998
Margin · 1999
1.1%(-3.0%)
Turnout
52.2%(+1.0%)
NOTA
0.0%
Top-2 squeeze
81.1%

Winning margin over time · Gorakhpur

19571962196719711977198019841989199119961998199957%

Candidates

Candidates · Gorakhpur 1984
RankCandidatePartyVotesVote share
1Madan PandeyWinnerINC1,91,02051.0%
2Harikesh BahadurLKD94,42025.2%
3Ramkaran SinghJNP19,5785.2%
4Lakshmi Shanker KhareBJP16,1954.3%
5Porushottam Alias Swami PurushottamnandIND9,6172.6%
6Baliram Alias BalikaranIND6,8571.8%
7ShahjajanIND6,4951.7%
8Vijay Narain TripathiDDP5,3741.4%
9Ramakant PandeyIND5,2021.4%
10Shankarlal AryaIND3,3660.9%
11Vinod Kumar TripathiIND3,3440.9%
12TriveniIND2,4870.7%
13Baij Nath TripathiIND2,2000.6%
14Makhanlal Alias Makahanlal GoyalIND2,0360.5%
15Atul Kumar MalhotraIND1,6270.4%
16Lal BahadurIND1,4680.4%
17Girish Chand TiwariIND1,2050.3%
18Amar Mani TripathiIND9130.2%
19RajpatiIND7990.2%

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