Constituency
259. Poona
Community mirrorMaharashtra · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-POONA
INC 59.0%won by 26.8%BJS 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 47.1% to 59.0% of the vote here (+11.9%).
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 32.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.2% between them, down from 98.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,29,041
Turnout
66.7%
Valid votes
3,52,998
Margin
94,488
26.77%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INCSince 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- −20.3%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 59.0%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- 66.6% → 66.7%