State board · Lok Sabha

Assam Lok Sabha 1971

Results board · 14 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateAssam

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 14

Electors

62.68L

On the roll

Votes polled

31.77L

50.7% of electors

Median turnout

49.9%

Median of 14 seats

INC lead

Above majority · 13 − 8

[01]Seat matrix

14 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 8 of 14INC 13 · +5 above majority

INC 1392.9% Indian National Congress

APHLC 17.1% All Party Hill Leaders Conference

State level, as published

INC 57.0%13 seats · 92.9%

CPI 5.6%0 seats

PSP 4.6%0 seats

AHL 3.0%Seats unmatched

NCO 2.9%Seats unmatched

Others 26.9%Seat count not derivable

Vote share not published

APHLC1 seat

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

INC converted 57.0% of votes into 92.9% of seats, a seat premium of 35.9 pp.
13 ÷ 14 = 92.9% · 92.9 − 57.0 = +35.9
CPI polled 5.6% of votes, the 2nd-highest share, but won 0 seats (0.0%).
0 ÷ 14 = 0.0% · 0.0 − 5.6 = −5.6
Autonomous Districts was decided by 31,544 votes, the closest of 14 seats; Dhubri had the widest margin, 1,49,748.
min / max of margin over 14 seats with a recorded margin
Turnout ran from 40.3% in Mangaldai to 63.9% in Barpeta; the median seat polled 49.9%.
min / median / max over 14 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

14 of 14 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 750.0% of seats

50–60 535.7% of seats

60–70 214.3% of seats

70–80 00.0% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestMangaldai40.3%
HighestBarpeta63.9%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

14 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Assam Lok Sabha 1971, all 14 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
42	Cachar	Jyotsna Chanda	Indian National Congress	2,05,486	63,004	30.7	41.4
43	KarimganjSC	Nihar Ranjan Laskar	Indian National Congress	2,10,476	1,21,746	57.8	42.3
44	Autonomous DistrictsSTCLOSEST	G. G. Swell	All Party Hill Leaders Conference	1,83,301	31,544	17.2	43.8
45	DhubriWIDEST	Moinul Haque Chowdhury	Indian National Congress	2,74,329	1,49,748	54.6	63.2
46	KokrajharST	Dharanidhar Basumatary	Indian National Congress	2,74,983	57,686	21.0	58.5
47	Barpeta	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed	Indian National Congress	2,98,728	1,36,120	45.6	63.9
48	Gauhati	Dinesh Chandra Goswami	Indian National Congress	2,31,908	96,001	41.4	53.9
49	Mangaldai	Dharani Dhar Das	Indian National Congress	1,89,652	39,573	20.9	40.3
50	Tezpur	Kamala Prasad Agarwala	Indian National Congress	2,38,135	97,450	40.9	55.7
51	Nowgong	Liladhar Kotoki	Indian National Congress	2,38,326	82,817	34.7	55.1
52	Kaliabor	Bedabrata Barua	Indian National Congress	2,05,287	1,00,688	49.0	47.7
53	Jorhat	Tarun Gogoi	Indian National Congress	1,94,353	71,010	36.5	45.6
54	Lakhimpur	Biswanarayan Shastri	Indian National Congress	2,20,051	43,712	19.9	49.5
55	Dibrugarh	Robindra Nath Kakoty	Indian National Congress	2,12,155	91,008	42.9	50.3

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 1,49,748 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1971 · Assam · 14 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database