Constituency
60. Puranpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1967
UP-PURANPUR
INC 27.4%won by 5.9%BJS 21.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 5.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 21.5% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 48.9% between them, down from 66.1% — the field split more ways.
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
64,964
Margin
3,865
5.95%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1M. L. ACHARYAIndian National Congress · INC17,82527.4%
- 2H. CHANDRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,96021.5%
- 3R. V. SHAHIndependent · IND12,43119.1%
- 4H. NARAINIndependent · IND10,10115.5%
- 5S. S. LALIndependent · IND5,6238.7%
- 6S. A. KHANIndependent · IND2,1953.4%
- 7M. MOHANPraja Socialist Party · PSP1,4802.3%
- 8K. KUMARIndependent · IND6771.0%
- 9S. KUMARSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP6721.0%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −27.3%
- INC share
- 33.2% → 27.4%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 21.5%
- Turnout
- — → —