Constituency
211. Bhopal
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BHOPAL
INC 50.9%won by 10.1%BJS 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.4% to 50.9% of the vote here (+17.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.7% of the vote between them, up from 82.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,81,472
Turnout
53.7%
Valid votes
3,12,141
Margin
31,412
10.06%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHANKAR DAYAL SHARMA KHUSHILAL VAIDYAIndian National Congress · INC1,58,80550.9%
- 2BHANU PRAKASH SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,27,39340.8%
- 3DADA BHOUMICKIndependent · IND20,3426.5%
- 4ARIF BEG KARAMAT BEGSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP5,6011.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +25.5%
- INC share
- 33.4% → 50.9%
- BJS share
- 48.8% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- 53.8% → 53.7%