Constituency
229. Zahoorabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1977
UP-ZAHOORABAD
CPI 47.0%won by 18.7%JNP 28.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bhartiya Krishak Dal (BKD) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 18.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1974 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 24.0% to 47.0% of the vote here (+22.9%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 28.2% — it did not contest here in 1974.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.2% of the vote between them, up from 57.7% — 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
68,059
Margin
12,741
18.72%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1JAIRAMCommunist Party of India · CPI31,96547.0%
- 2KRISHNA KANT ALIAS VISHWANATH SINGHJanata Party · JNP19,22428.2%
- 3RAM BRIKSHIndependent · IND11,82817.4%
- 4NAGENDRANATHIndependent · IND1,9592.9%
- 5HARISHCHANDRA ALIAS HARINANDSanyukt Samajwadi Dal · SSD9641.4%
- 6RAMANATHIndependent · IND8881.3%
- 7HARIIndependent · IND8651.3%
- 8GAURI SHANKER CHATURVEDIIndependent · IND3660.5%
Since 1974
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1974 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BKD
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–JNP swing
- −5.3%
- CPI share
- 24.0% → 47.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 28.2%
- Turnout
- — → —