Constituency
8. Hamirpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-HAMIRPUR
INC 71.2%won by 45.1%REP 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.2% to 45.1%.
- New challengerREP (REP) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.2% of the vote between them, up from 52.1% — 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
20,340
Margin
9,183
45.15%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1RUP SINGH PHULIndian National Congress · INC14,48171.2%
- 2SHANKAR SINGHREP · REP5,29826.0%
- 3JAGAT SINGHIndependent · IND5612.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–REP swing
- +18.5%
- INC share
- 26.6% → 71.2%
- REP share
- 0.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —