Constituency
185. Gorakhpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1974
UP-GORAKHPUR
BJS 33.0%won by 3.3%INC 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 3.3%.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
57,536
Margin
1,894
3.29%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJS- 1AWADHESH KUMARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS19,00933.0%
- 2MADAN PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC17,11529.7%
- 3RATAN SINGHBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD15,21526.4%
- 4RAMA KANTSOP · SOP3,6666.4%
- 5RAM AVADHNCO · NCO7371.3%
- 6RAM KUMAR ALIAS RAJ KUMAR YADAVAIndependent · IND5681.0%
- 7RADHEY SHYAMRPI · RPI3980.7%
- 8UDAI PRATAP DUBEYSwatantra Party · SWA3320.6%
- 9DAUD HUDAMUL · MUL3150.5%
- 10SURESH CHANDRAIndependent · IND1810.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +3.9%
- BJS share
- 32.5% → 33.0%
- INC share
- 33.0% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —