Constituency
134. Ayodhya
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1974
UP-AYODHYA
BJS 26.8%won by 0.4%BKD 26.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 0.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 53.2% between them, down from 68.0% — the field split more ways.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 283 votes (0.41%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered6 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
68,925
Margin
283
0.41%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJS- 1BED PRAKASH AGARWALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS18,49126.8%
- 2SRI RAM DWIVEDIBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD18,20826.4%
- 3MATA PRASAD SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI14,59021.2%
- 4RAM ASRA YADAVIndependent · IND5,9828.7%
- 5SHYAM LALRPK · RPK4,9667.2%
- 6VISHWA NATH KAPOORNCO · NCO4,5346.6%
- 7RAM SAJANIndependent · IND1,0631.5%
- 8HASHIM HUSSAINIndependent · IND6931.0%
- 9ATIK AHMADIndependent · IND3980.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–BKD swing
- +3.0%
- BJS share
- 27.6% → 26.8%
- BKD share
- 30.2% → 26.4%
- Turnout
- — → —