Constituency
6. Nurpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-NURPUR
INC 39.8%won by 5.3%IND 34.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.1% to 5.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 18.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
32,194
Margin
1,719
5.34%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1RAM CHANDRAIndian National Congress · INC12,81139.8%
- 2SUDARSHAN SINGHIndependent · IND11,09234.5%
- 3TILAK RAJCommunist Party of India · CPI3,69211.5%
- 4DHANI RAMIndependent · IND1,7315.4%
- 5JHANDU RAMIndependent · IND1,6365.1%
- 6ROMAL SINGHIndependent · IND1,2323.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −31.8%
- INC share
- 58.2% → 39.8%
- IND share
- 21.1% → 34.5%
- Turnout
- — → —