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60. Puranpur

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1969

UP-PURANPUR

BKD 26.0%won by 0.4%BJS 25.6%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bhartiya Krishak Dal (BKD), which now leads by 0.4%.

  • BKD vote shareBKD went from 0.0% to 26.0% of the vote here (+26.0%).
  • Knife-edgeDecided by 272 votes (0.40%) — among the closest results anywhere.
  • Multi-cornered5 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
68,003
Margin
272
0.40%

Candidates

8 contested · winner BKD
  1. 1HAR NARAINBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD17,64926.0%
  2. 2HARISH CHANDRABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS17,37725.6%
  3. 3MOHAN LAL ACHARYAIndian National Congress · INC13,86620.4%
  4. 4RAM SAGARIndependent · IND8,11911.9%
  5. 5JAGIR SINGHMAP · MAP5,0127.4%
  6. 6SHUGAN CHANDIndependent · IND3,2424.8%
  7. 7BRIJ BEHARI LALCommunist Party of India · CPI1,6382.4%
  8. 8RAMUIndependent · IND1,1001.6%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
BKDflipped
BKD–BJS swing
+21.9%
BKD share
0.0% → 26.0%
BJS share
21.5% → 25.6%
Turnout
— → —
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