Constituency
421. Roorkee
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1967
UP-ROORKEE
INC 40.5%won by 7.2%IND 33.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.2% to 7.2%.
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 3.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.8% of the vote between them, up from 67.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
70,469
Margin
5,066
7.19%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1J.N.SINHAIndian National Congress · INC28,52640.5%
- 2R.MUSHTAQIndependent · IND23,46033.3%
- 3S.KUMARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS12,39617.6%
- 4P.CHANDPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,0504.3%
- 5R.R.LALIndependent · IND1,6142.3%
- 6JAMSHEDIndependent · IND1,4232.0%
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–IND swing
- −13.0%
- INC share
- 44.0% → 40.5%
- IND share
- 23.8% → 33.3%
- Turnout
- — → —