Constituency
147. Kaithal
Community mirrorHaryana · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-KAITHAL
INC 45.2%won by 7.5%NCO 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 7.6% to 7.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNCO (NCO) finished second with 37.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.0% between them, down from 93.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 7.8% to 66.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,19,031
Turnout
66.0%
Valid votes
3,42,698
Margin
25,538
7.45%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1GULZARI LAL NANDAIndian National Congress · INC1,55,00045.2%
- 2INDER SINGHNCO · NCO1,29,46237.8%
- 3NANU MALIndependent · IND18,9525.5%
- 4BISHAN SINGHIndependent · IND13,0773.8%
- 5JAGJIT SINGH ROHLOOBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD10,9953.2%
- 6KRISHN KUMARFBL · FBL6,6041.9%
- 7SURTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,8171.1%
- 8MADAN GOPAL MITTALPraja Socialist Party · PSP3,3001.0%
- 9SUKHWANT SINGHIndependent · IND1,4910.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–NCO swing
- −43.1%
- INC share
- 50.5% → 45.2%
- NCO share
- 0.0% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- 73.8% → 66.0%