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458. Kanpur

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Uttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971

IN-KANPUR

IND 60.9%won by 36.5%BJS 24.4%

What changed here

Derived

Independent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.7% to 36.5%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.3% of the vote between them, up from 62.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 3.6% to 48.3%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
5,06,045
Turnout
48.3%
Valid votes
2,44,289
Margin
89,199
36.51%

Candidates

15 contested · winner IND
  1. 1S. M. BANERJEEIndependent · IND1,48,84560.9%
  2. 2BABU RAM SHUKLABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS59,64624.4%
  3. 3MOHAMMAD WASEEMIndependent · IND24,77610.1%
  4. 4SHEO VARMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,1231.3%
  5. 5LAKHAN LALIndependent · IND1,3340.5%
  6. 6SHAUKAT ALIMUM · MUM1,2590.5%
  7. 7RAMA KANT AWASTHIBhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD1,2400.5%
  8. 8VICKY KAPOORNCO · NCO1,1840.5%
  9. 9RAM SWARUPIndependent · IND7780.3%
  10. 10CHANDRA SHEKHARIndependent · IND6450.3%
  11. 11BHAGWATI PRASAD DIXITIndependent · IND5400.2%
  12. 12BAL ROOP SHARMARSM · RSM5110.2%
  13. 13RAI SOM NARAIN SINHAIndependent · IND1940.1%
  14. 14RAJENDRA SINGHIndependent · IND1330.1%
  15. 15IQBAL AHMAD KHURANAIndependent · IND810.0%

Since 1967

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
IND
IND–BJS swing
+23.6%
IND share
32.3% → 60.9%
BJS share
19.5% → 24.4%
Turnout
51.8% → 48.3%
457. Bilhaur459. Etawah
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