Constituency
61. Powayan
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1974
UP-POWAYAN
INC 29.1%won by 10.7%BJS 18.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.9% to 10.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 47.4% between them, down from 58.2% — 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
53,444
Margin
5,720
10.70%
Candidates
15 contested · winner INC- 1ROOP RAMIndian National Congress · INC15,53929.1%
- 2BADRI PRASADBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS9,81918.4%
- 3SURAJ PRASADBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD9,38317.6%
- 4ITWARI LALSwatantra Party · SWA3,9177.3%
- 5BANWARI LALIndependent · IND3,2726.1%
- 6UDHAM SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,1996.0%
- 7NATHOO LALIndependent · IND1,5312.9%
- 8GOPALIndependent · IND1,3792.6%
- 9BANDHAIndependent · IND1,1922.2%
- 10LAKHAN DASSNCO · NCO1,0602.0%
- 11BISHUN LALIndependent · IND9951.9%
- 12HANS RAMIndependent · IND7601.4%
- 13KAMLESH CHANDRAIndependent · IND6981.3%
- 14SHANKER LALIndependent · IND4700.9%
- 15BANWARIIndependent · IND2300.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +3.8%
- INC share
- 32.6% → 29.1%
- BJS share
- 25.6% → 18.4%
- Turnout
- — → —