Constituency
116. Chandni Chowk
Community mirrorDelhi · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-CHANDNI-CHOWK
INC 64.1%won by 32.6%BJS 31.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 32.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.2% to 64.1% of the vote here (+32.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.7% of the vote between them, up from 75.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.4% to 71.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,94,732
Turnout
71.2%
Valid votes
1,38,600
Margin
45,223
32.63%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1SUBHADRA JOSHIIndian National Congress · INC88,90764.1%
- 2RAM GOPAL SHALWALEBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS43,68431.5%
- 3PARTAP SINGHNCO · NCO2,4541.8%
- 4IMDAD SABRIIndependent · IND1,9751.4%
- 5SANWAL DAS GUPTASamyukta Socialist Party · SSP4980.4%
- 6ZULFIQAR ALIIndependent · IND2920.2%
- 7M. NOORUDDINVHP · VHP2200.2%
- 8BALWANT SINGHIndependent · IND1740.1%
- 9PHOOL CHANDIndependent · IND1670.1%
- 10PURAN LAL LAKHAN PALIndependent · IND1240.1%
- 11MATU RAMIndependent · IND1050.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +45.4%
- INC share
- 31.2% → 64.1%
- BJS share
- 44.0% → 31.5%
- Turnout
- 68.7% → 71.2%