Constituency
9. Ambala
Community mirrorHaryana Assembly Election, 1972
HR-AMBALA
INC 50.7%won by 2.3%BJS 48.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.4% to 2.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.1% of the vote between them, up from 91.8% — 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
33,418
Margin
762
2.28%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1LAKHWATI JAINIndian National Congress · INC16,93250.7%
- 2LAXMI NARAINBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS16,17048.4%
- 3RAJA RAMIndependent · IND3160.9%
Since 1968
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −17.1%
- INC share
- 55.6% → 50.7%
- BJS share
- 36.2% → 48.4%
- Turnout
- — → —