Constituency
49. Gauhati
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-GAUHATI
INC 63.5%won by 43.4%CPI 20.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 43.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.9% to 63.5% of the vote here (+29.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.6% of the vote between them, up from 68.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 11.9% to 51.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,29,982
Turnout
51.4%
Valid votes
2,21,191
Margin
96,001
43.40%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DINESH CHANDRA GOSWAMIIndian National Congress · INC1,40,48363.5%
- 2DHIRESWAR KALITACommunist Party of India · CPI44,48220.1%
- 3NANDESWAR TALUKDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM15,1906.9%
- 4RAMESH CHANDRA CHOWDHURYNCO · NCO12,0025.4%
- 5PROF. ACHYUT THAKURIAIndependent · IND4,9132.2%
- 6AKHIL RANJAN DAS GUPTAIndependent · IND4,1211.9%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +44.0%
- INC share
- 33.9% → 63.5%
- CPI share
- 34.5% → 20.1%
- Turnout
- 63.3% → 51.4%