Constituency
478. Muzaffarnagar
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-MUZAFFARNAGAR
CPI 25.1%won by 3.9%IND 21.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 3.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 20.7% to 25.1% of the vote here (+4.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 21.2% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 46.4% between them, down from 60.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.4% to 60.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,90,868
Turnout
60.6%
Valid votes
2,97,481
Margin
11,602
3.90%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1L.A. KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI74,75525.1%
- 2B. SWARUPIndependent · IND63,15321.2%
- 3S. PRASADIndian National Congress · INC50,33616.9%
- 4J. SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,99315.5%
- 5J.S.K. ADVOCATERPI · RPI26,6529.0%
- 6D. SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS22,8527.7%
- 7R. DIYASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP7,1982.4%
- 8K.K. SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA6,5422.2%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–IND swing
- −16.8%
- CPI share
- 20.7% → 25.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 21.2%
- Turnout
- 54.2% → 60.6%