Constituency
415. Rae Bareli
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-RAE-BARELI
INC 66.4%won by 40.5%SSP 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 35.2% to 40.5%.
- New challengerSamyukta Socialist Party (SSP) finished second with 25.9% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.2% of the vote between them, up from 75.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,15,711
Turnout
53.6%
Valid votes
2,76,274
Margin
1,11,810
40.47%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1INDIRA NEHRU GANDHIIndian National Congress · INC1,83,30966.4%
- 2RAJ NARAINSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP71,49925.9%
- 3SWAMI ADWAITA NANDIndependent · IND16,6276.0%
- 4RAMESHWAR DUTTA MANAVRSM · RSM4,8391.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SSP swing
- −14.7%
- INC share
- 55.2% → 66.4%
- SSP share
- 0.0% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- 54.3% → 53.6%