Constituency
7. Dera Gopipur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-DERA-GOPIPUR
INC 33.4%won by 5.2%IND 28.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.2% to 5.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
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
31,675
Margin
1,659
5.24%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MEHAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC10,59433.4%
- 2CHURA MANIIndependent · IND8,93528.2%
- 3PARAS RAM S/O JAI KARAN DASSCommunist Party of India · CPI6,51520.6%
- 4PARAS RAM S/O JANTUIndependent · IND3,20610.1%
- 5PARMODH SINGHIndependent · IND2,4257.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −1.9%
- INC share
- 53.6% → 33.4%
- IND share
- 46.4% → 28.2%
- Turnout
- — → —