Constituency
497. Muzaffarnagar
Community mirrorUttar Pradesh · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-MUZAFFARNAGAR
BLD 67.5%won by 45.6%INC 21.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 45.6%.
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 67.5% of the vote here (+67.5%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 21.9% — it did not contest here in 1971.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.5% between them, down from 94.8% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,73,365
Turnout
69.9%
Valid votes
4,00,913
Margin
1,82,659
45.56%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BLD- 1SAEED MURTAZABLD · BLD2,70,64467.5%
- 2VARUN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC87,98521.9%
- 3MAHENDRA GOYALIndependent · IND22,3175.6%
- 4VIJAIPAL SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI8,1462.0%
- 5SHYAM SINGHIndependent · IND4,7371.2%
- 6RAMDEVIndependent · IND3,6720.9%
- 7AMIRUDDIN TOOFANIIndependent · IND3,4120.9%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- BLDflipped
- BLD–INC swing
- +45.6%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 67.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 21.9%
- Turnout
- 69.8% → 69.9%