Constituency
344. Banswara
Community mirrorRajasthan · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BANSWARA
INC 42.1%won by 0.4%SSP 41.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.8% to 0.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSamyukta Socialist Party (SSP) finished second with 41.7% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.8% between them, down from 94.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 14.3% to 53.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,23,521
Turnout
53.8%
Valid votes
2,81,778
Margin
1,144
0.41%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1HIRALALIndian National Congress · INC1,18,64342.1%
- 2PRABHULALSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP1,17,49941.7%
- 3UDAILALIndependent · IND29,48210.5%
- 4BHOOJI BHAINCO · NCO16,1545.7%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SSP swing
- −51.6%
- INC share
- 52.0% → 42.1%
- SSP share
- 0.0% → 41.7%
- Turnout
- 68.1% → 53.8%