Constituency
113. South Delhi
Community mirrorDelhi · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-SOUTH-DELHI
INC 62.4%won by 26.5%BJS 35.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.8% to 62.4% of the vote here (+26.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 90.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,08,392
Turnout
66.1%
Valid votes
2,69,961
Margin
71,590
26.52%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1SHASHI BHUSHANIndian National Congress · INC1,68,40662.4%
- 2BALRAJ MADHOKBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS96,81635.9%
- 3G. V. SATYANARAYANAIndependent · IND1,2730.5%
- 4KALI RAMIndependent · IND8860.3%
- 5RAM MOHAN DUBEYPraja Socialist Party · PSP7660.3%
- 6INDER SENHMS · HMS5450.2%
- 7SOMA DUTT JOSHIIndependent · IND5330.2%
- 8GHANSHAM SHARMA SHASTRIIndependent · IND4110.2%
- 9KHUSHVINDER SINGH BAINSIndependent · IND3250.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +45.3%
- INC share
- 35.8% → 62.4%
- BJS share
- 54.5% → 35.9%
- Turnout
- 64.9% → 66.1%