Constituency
424. Dehradun
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh Assembly Election, 1980
UP-DEHRADUN
INC 58.6%won by 34.9%IND 23.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 34.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 47.1% to 58.6% of the vote here (+11.4%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 23.7% — it polled just 0.5% in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.3% between them, down from 96.5% — 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
54,746
Margin
19,086
34.86%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1DWARIKA NATH DHAWANIndian National Congress · INC32,05858.6%
- 2NITYA NAND SWAMIIndependent · IND12,97223.7%
- 3DEVANDRA SHASTRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,23713.2%
- 4RADHA KRISHAN KUKRATICommunist Party of India · CPI1,5402.8%
- 5VIJAY KUMAR SHARMAJNPSR · JNPSR3200.6%
- 6CHINTA MANI LAKHERAIndependent · IND2790.5%
- 7PURSHOTTAMIndependent · IND1550.3%
- 8SUBASH CHAND BALMIKIIndependent · IND1080.2%
- 9JYOTI BAHUGUNAIndependent · IND770.1%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −11.7%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 58.6%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- — → —