Constituency
256. Indore
Community mirrorMadhya Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-INDORE
BLD 49.5%won by 10.4%INC 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 10.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BLD vote shareBLD went from 0.0% to 49.5% of the vote here (+49.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.7% of the vote between them, up from 74.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.6% to 62.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,60,665
Turnout
62.7%
Valid votes
3,51,754
Margin
36,636
10.42%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BLD- 1KALYAN JAINBLD · BLD1,74,27849.5%
- 2BHATT NANDKISHOREIndian National Congress · INC1,37,64239.1%
- 3HOMI F. DAJICommunist Party of India · CPI29,7258.5%
- 4BASHIR PATEL HAJI KASAM PATELIndependent · IND3,2810.9%
- 5METHARAM TOLANIIndependent · IND2,7950.8%
- 6SUBHASH CHANDRA BABULAL JAINIndependent · IND1,5580.4%
- 7GHANSHYAM GANGARAMIndependent · IND1,4030.4%
- 8RAJINDRA KUMAR MITTALIndependent · IND1,0720.3%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BLDflipped
- BLD–INC swing
- +55.4%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 49.5%
- INC share
- 45.0% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- 56.2% → 62.7%