Constituency
159. Srinagar
Community mirrorJammu & Kashmir · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-SRINAGAR
IND 61.8%won by 27.7%INC 34.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: JKN (JKN) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 27.7%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 3.8% to 61.8% of the vote here (+58.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.9% of the vote between them, up from 86.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 20.3% to 56.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,71,494
Turnout
56.2%
Valid votes
2,08,723
Margin
57,808
27.70%
Candidates
6 contested · winner IND- 1SHAMIM AHMAD SHAMIMIndependent · IND1,28,94861.8%
- 2BAKHSHI GULAM MOHDIndian National Congress · INC71,14034.1%
- 3TRILOKI NATH DHARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,2342.5%
- 4GULAM MOHD. BAKHSHIndependent · IND1,4180.7%
- 5GULAM AHMAD MIRIndependent · IND1,0960.5%
- 6PUSHKAR NATH VAKILIndependent · IND8870.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- JKN
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- +63.4%
- IND share
- 3.8% → 61.8%
- INC share
- 39.5% → 34.1%
- Turnout
- 35.9% → 56.2%