Constituency
409. Sitapur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-SITAPUR
INC 56.7%won by 22.8%BJS 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 22.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.4% to 56.7% of the vote here (+27.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.6% of the vote between them, up from 68.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 8.8% to 42.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,41,802
Turnout
42.4%
Valid votes
2,29,547
Margin
52,232
22.75%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1JAGDISH CHANDRA DIXITIndian National Congress · INC1,30,08656.7%
- 2JAINARAIN RATHIBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS77,85433.9%
- 3HOLIIndependent · IND4,8512.1%
- 4SHAMIM AHMAD KHANIndependent · IND4,8252.1%
- 5HANUMAN PRASAD MISRAPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,0761.8%
- 6ARJUN LALIndependent · IND2,8061.2%
- 7JAWAHAR LALIndependent · IND1,4280.6%
- 8ABU TALIB KHANNCO · NCO1,3500.6%
- 9MANGLOOIndependent · IND1,3120.6%
- 10HASNAINZAIDIIndependent · IND9590.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +32.8%
- INC share
- 29.4% → 56.7%
- BJS share
- 39.4% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- 51.1% → 42.4%