Constituency
8. Ambala Cantonment
Community mirrorHaryana Assembly Election, 1968
HR-AMBALA-CANTONMENT
BJS 51.6%won by 5.6%INC 46.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 5.6%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 39.8% to 51.6% of the vote here (+11.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.7% of the vote between them, up from 81.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
25,203
Margin
1,403
5.57%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJS- 1BHAGWAN DASSBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,00951.6%
- 2DEV RAJ ANANDIndian National Congress · INC11,60646.1%
- 3KARAM VIR SINGHIndependent · IND2581.0%
- 4AVTAR SINGHIndependent · IND2270.9%
- 5SHAM LALIndependent · IND1030.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +7.4%
- BJS share
- 39.8% → 51.6%
- INC share
- 41.7% → 46.1%
- Turnout
- — → —