Constituency
396. Almora
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-ALMORA
INC 67.1%won by 40.7%BJS 26.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.4% to 40.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.5% of the vote between them, up from 85.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,83,252
Turnout
27.7%
Valid votes
1,33,719
Margin
54,421
40.70%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1NARENDRA SINGHIndian National Congress · INC89,75167.1%
- 2SHOBHAN SINGH JINABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS35,33026.4%
- 3MADAN LALIndependent · IND8,6386.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +32.3%
- INC share
- 46.8% → 67.1%
- BJS share
- 38.4% → 26.4%
- Turnout
- 27.9% → 27.7%