Constituency
423. Faizabad
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-FAIZABAD
INC 37.4%won by 7.6%BJS 29.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.7% to 7.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 29.8% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.3% between them, down from 74.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.3% to 50.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,40,689
Turnout
50.7%
Valid votes
2,23,275
Margin
16,909
7.57%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1R. K. SINHAIndian National Congress · INC83,53237.4%
- 2C. B. AGARWALABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS66,62329.8%
- 3M. P. SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI60,33927.0%
- 4BALAJIIndependent · IND12,7815.7%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −32.6%
- INC share
- 40.1% → 37.4%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 29.8%
- Turnout
- 47.4% → 50.7%