Name: Gorakhpur Vidhan Sabha 1980 result - Uttar Pradesh (1947-1999)
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Winner: Sunil ShastriINC(I) · INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (I)
Votes: 21,05639.4% share
Margin ?: 5,328over BJP
Turnout ?: 42.1%54,032 of 128,392
NOTA ?: 0

Historical election results Official outcomes as published by the Election Commission of India, compiled by third parties and not verified by VotingBharat.com. Data sources

All candidates, 1980
#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Vote share
1	Sunil Shastri Winner	INC(I)	21,056	39.36%
2	Harish Chandra (Harishji)	BJP	15,728	29.40%
3	Sardar Rattan Singh	INC(U)	8,460	15.82%
4	Jagdish Prasad Gaur	CPI	2,230	4.17%
5	Dasharath Tripathi	JNP(SC)	1,659	3.10%
6	Satya Narain	JNP(SR)	969	1.81%
7	Gomti Prasad Vaidya	IND	691	1.29%
8	Arun Kumar	JNP(JP)	610	1.14%
9	Misbahuddin Warsi	IND	418	0.78%
10	Rajendra Kumar Rai	IND	315	0.59%
11	Yogendra Kumar Thakur	IND	298	0.56%
12	Ramesh Shahi	IND	169	0.32%
13	Pradeep Kumar Chatterji	IND	148	0.28%
14	Jagdish Prasad	IND	134	0.25%
15	Ram Kawal Prasad	SSD	125	0.23%
16	Shakeel Ahmad	IND	116	0.22%
17	Ausaf Ahmad Siddiqi	IND	112	0.21%
18	Ayodhya Prasad Tripathi	IND	76	0.14%
18	Yogendra Singh	IND	76	0.14%
20	Ram Kant Shukla	IND	60	0.11%
21	H. K. Anjum	IND	42	0.08%

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Winners as in our results data. Boundaries may have changed between years.

Winning party by year

1996BJPby 31,565
1993BJPby 19,132
1991BJPby 25,435
1989BJPby 10,867
1985INCby 11,053
1980INC(I)by 5,328
1977JNPby 20,767

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Source: IndiaVotes.com, citing the Election Commission of India. Report an error.