Constituency
435. Salempur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-SALEMPUR
INC 62.8%won by 38.4%SSP 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.2% to 38.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.2% of the vote between them, up from 56.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.3% to 44.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,99,035
Turnout
44.7%
Valid votes
2,67,541
Margin
1,02,801
38.42%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1TARKESHWAR PANDAYIndian National Congress · INC1,68,10962.8%
- 2UGRASENSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP65,30824.4%
- 3RAMJI BHAIBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD31,28711.7%
- 4A. S. NARAINE BASHARIAIndependent · IND2,8371.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SSP swing
- +29.2%
- INC share
- 33.0% → 62.8%
- SSP share
- 23.7% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- 51.0% → 44.7%