Constituency

398. Bijnor

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Uttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971

IN-BIJNOR

INC 66.6%won by 47.8%BKD 18.8%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.9% to 47.8%.

New challengerBhartiya Krishak Dal (BKD) finished second with 18.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.4% of the vote between them, up from 58.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
TurnoutTurnout fell 20.1% to 41.9%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

5,18,152

Turnout

41.9%

Valid votes

2,17,319

Margin

1,03,828

47.78%