Election
Constituency

423. Mussoorie

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1974

UP-MUSSOORIE

INC 61.5%won by 50.1%BKD 11.4%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.2% to 50.1%.

  • New challengerBhartiya Krishak Dal (BKD) finished second with 11.4% — it did not contest here in 1969.
  • Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
55,017
Margin
27,559
50.09%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INC
  1. 1SHANTI PRAPAUNA SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC33,85461.5%
  2. 2KUSHAL PAL SINGHBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD6,29511.4%
  3. 3DEVRENDRA SHASTRIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,85810.6%
  4. 4BRIJ BHUSHAN SARANIndependent · IND5,0219.1%
  5. 5S . R. THAPAIndependent · IND2,0883.8%
  6. 6KRIPAL SINGH RAWAT SAROJCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,1532.1%
  7. 7KRISHNA AWTARIndependent · IND7481.4%

Since 1969

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–BKD swing
+4.6%
INC share
45.4% → 61.5%
BKD share
0.0% → 11.4%
Turnout
— → —
422. Hardwar424. Dehradun
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