Constituency
61. Powayan
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1969
UP-POWAYAN
INC 32.6%won by 6.9%BJS 25.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.3% to 6.9%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Praja Socialist Party (PSP) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 58.2% of the vote between them, up from 40.5% — 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
32,171
Margin
2,232
6.94%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1KANDHAIIndian National Congress · INC10,47832.6%
- 2DHARAM JEETBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,24625.6%
- 3CHAUDHARI LAKHAN DASSIndependent · IND3,26010.1%
- 4LAL SINGHRPI · RPI3,1199.7%
- 5SURAJ PRASADSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP2,8698.9%
- 6BADRI PRASADSwatantra Party · SWA2,4567.6%
- 7MATHU LALMAP · MAP1,0843.4%
- 8KAMLESH CHANDRAIndependent · IND6592.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −5.7%
- INC share
- 25.9% → 32.6%
- BJS share
- 13.2% → 25.6%
- Turnout
- — → —