Constituency
47. Kokrajhar
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-KOKRAJHAR
INC 58.3%won by 22.3%IND 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.0% to 22.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 94.3% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 36.0% to 55.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,69,738
Turnout
55.1%
Valid votes
2,58,998
Margin
57,686
22.27%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1DHARANIDHAR BASUMATARYIndian National Congress · INC1,50,98758.3%
- 2SAMAR BRAHMA CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND93,30136.0%
- 3AMIYA KUMAR BRAHMANCO · NCO14,7105.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −16.8%
- INC share
- 69.5% → 58.3%
- IND share
- 30.5% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 19.1% → 55.1%