Constituency
441. Jaunpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-JAUNPUR
INC 55.9%won by 38.9%BKD 17.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 30.8% to 38.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBhartiya Krishak Dal (BKD) finished second with 17.0% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.9% between them, down from 89.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 48.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,44,769
Turnout
48.9%
Valid votes
2,66,526
Margin
1,03,592
38.87%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1RAJDEO SINGHIndian National Congress · INC1,49,00955.9%
- 2MAHDI JAFRIBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD45,41717.0%
- 3DAYA SHANKERBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS27,15710.2%
- 4PRAKASH MEHROTRANCO · NCO19,5567.3%
- 5MAHADEOIndependent · IND16,0906.0%
- 6RAM LAL SINGH YADAVIndependent · IND6,3142.4%
- 7HIRA LALSwatantra Party · SWA1,5580.6%
- 8GHANSHYAM NIGAMIndependent · IND1,4250.5%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BKD swing
- −21.4%
- INC share
- 60.2% → 55.9%
- BKD share
- 0.0% → 17.0%
- Turnout
- 52.4% → 48.9%