Constituency
495. Meerut
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-MEERUT
BLD 63.4%won by 31.2%INC 32.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 31.2%.
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 63.4% of the vote here (+63.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.5% of the vote between them, up from 78.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,95,444
Turnout
67.1%
Valid votes
3,99,421
Margin
1,24,732
31.23%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BLD- 1KAILASH PRAKASHBLD · BLD2,53,03563.4%
- 2SHAHNAWAZ KHANIndian National Congress · INC1,28,30332.1%
- 3RAM KUMARIndependent · IND4,8071.2%
- 4ACHARYA DEEPANKARCommunist Party of India · CPI4,4511.1%
- 5PRABHU DAYALIndependent · IND4,1951.1%
- 6SATYA PRAKASH MANGLIKIndependent · IND2,5080.6%
- 7HARI SINGH AZADIndependent · IND2,1220.5%
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
- +82.2%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 63.4%
- INC share
- 51.0% → 32.1%
- Turnout
- 65.6% → 67.1%