Constituency
444. Chandauli
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-CHANDAULI
INC 36.5%won by 4.8%BKD 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 31.1% to 36.5% of the vote here (+5.4%).
- New challengerBhartiya Krishak Dal (BKD) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.3% of the vote between them, up from 62.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,48,251
Turnout
55.0%
Valid votes
3,01,373
Margin
14,387
4.77%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SUDHAKER PANDEYIndian National Congress · INC1,10,11436.5%
- 2MOTI RAM SHASTRIBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD95,72731.8%
- 3CHANDRA SHEKHERSamyukta Socialist Party · SSP61,63320.5%
- 4KAMLA DEVIIndependent · IND12,2174.1%
- 5RAM NATH PRASAD BINDIndependent · IND11,5133.8%
- 6SHARDAIndependent · IND6,2742.1%
- 7MUNNI LALIndependent · IND3,8951.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BKD swing
- −26.4%
- INC share
- 31.1% → 36.5%
- BKD share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- 55.2% → 55.0%