Constituency
442. Saidpur
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-SAIDPUR
INC 51.0%won by 26.6%BKD 24.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.2% to 26.6%.
- New challengerBhartiya Krishak Dal (BKD) finished second with 24.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.3% of the vote between them, up from 56.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,55,700
Turnout
48.3%
Valid votes
2,68,231
Margin
71,446
26.64%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHAMBHU NATHIndian National Congress · INC1,36,68251.0%
- 2RAM YASH RAMBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD65,23624.3%
- 3RAM SAGARBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS57,95721.6%
- 4RAMDHANISamyukta Socialist Party · SSP8,3563.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BKD swing
- −4.2%
- INC share
- 30.8% → 51.0%
- BKD share
- 0.0% → 24.3%
- Turnout
- 49.7% → 48.3%