Constituency
18. Ambala Cantonment
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-AMBALA-CANTONMENT
INC 52.4%won by 13.0%JS 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.1% to 13.0%.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 39.5% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Multi-cornered3 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
33,091
Margin
4,292
12.97%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1DEV RAJIndian National Congress · INC17,34852.4%
- 2SOHAN LALJS · JS13,05639.5%
- 3JAGAN NATHIndependent · IND2,1386.5%
- 4DAYA SINGHIndependent · IND5491.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −41.3%
- INC share
- 54.3% → 52.4%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- — → —