Constituency
43. Cachar
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-CACHAR
INC 50.5%won by 31.6%IND 19.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 23.7% to 31.6%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.2% to 40.2%.
- 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
4,95,827
Turnout
40.2%
Valid votes
1,99,438
Margin
63,004
31.59%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1JYOTSNA CHANDAIndian National Congress · INC1,00,79850.5%
- 2A. F. GOLAM OSMANIIndependent · IND37,79419.0%
- 3H. K. BAWICHHUAKAIndependent · IND24,66512.4%
- 4ZAIREMAIndependent · IND13,9727.0%
- 5NANDA KISHOR SINHANCO · NCO9,3504.7%
- 6J. F. MANLIANAIndependent · IND5,3002.7%
- 7THANGRIDEMAPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,9402.0%
- 8SAPCHHUNGAIndependent · IND3,6191.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +7.9%
- INC share
- 45.7% → 50.5%
- IND share
- 22.0% → 19.0%
- Turnout
- 42.4% → 40.2%