Constituency
51. Tezpur
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-TEZPUR
INC 60.8%won by 44.3%IND 16.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.1% to 44.3%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 16.5% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.3% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.3% to 51.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,27,600
Turnout
51.4%
Valid votes
2,19,787
Margin
97,450
44.34%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KAMALA PRASAD AGARWALAIndian National Congress · INC1,33,67360.8%
- 2FRANCIS HANSIndependent · IND36,22316.5%
- 3PURNA NARAYAN SINHAPraja Socialist Party · PSP33,22715.1%
- 4CHANDRA SEKHAR BORAIndependent · IND16,6647.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −19.2%
- INC share
- 63.5% → 60.8%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 16.5%
- Turnout
- 58.7% → 51.4%