Constituency
238. Ghazipur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1967
UP-GHAZIPUR
CPI 23.1%won by 1.2%INC 21.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 1.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 14.9% to 23.1% of the vote here (+8.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 44.9% between them, down from 59.7% — 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
47,075
Margin
571
1.21%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1P . RAMCommunist Party of India · CPI10,85323.1%
- 2R . S . SINGHIndian National Congress · INC10,28221.8%
- 3JAMUNASwatantra Party · SWA8,13017.3%
- 4K . KANTBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,65516.3%
- 5MOHIUDDINCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,1928.9%
- 6B . SHARMAIndependent · IND3,0536.5%
- 7RAJ PATIRPI · RPI2,3815.1%
- 8LALCHANIndependent · IND5291.1%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +22.7%
- CPI share
- 14.9% → 23.1%
- INC share
- 36.4% → 21.8%
- Turnout
- — → —