Constituency
421. Roorkee
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1969
UP-ROORKEE
INC 33.9%won by 0.9%BKD 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.2% to 0.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBhartiya Krishak Dal (BKD) finished second with 33.1% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.0% between them, down from 73.8% — 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
78,685
Margin
675
0.86%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1J . N . SINHAIndian National Congress · INC26,69233.9%
- 2RAO MUSHTAQBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD26,01733.1%
- 3MOLJAR SINGHSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP13,76217.5%
- 4CHANDRAKANTBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS12,21415.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BKD swing
- −39.6%
- INC share
- 40.5% → 33.9%
- BKD share
- 0.0% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —