Constituency
117. Delhi Sadar
Community mirrorDelhi · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-DELHI-SADAR
INC 62.5%won by 27.3%BJS 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 27.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 41.3% to 62.5% of the vote here (+21.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.8% of the vote between them, up from 88.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,34,764
Turnout
66.8%
Valid votes
1,56,907
Margin
42,803
27.28%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1AMAR NATH CHAWLAIndian National Congress · INC98,10862.5%
- 2KANWAR LAL GUPTABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS55,30535.2%
- 3F. R. KHANIndependent · IND2,0311.3%
- 4CHUNNI LALNCO · NCO1,0950.7%
- 5ALI MOHDIndependent · IND3680.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +33.5%
- INC share
- 41.3% → 62.5%
- BJS share
- 47.5% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- 68.8% → 66.8%