Constituency
20. Simla
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-SIMLA
INC 43.9%won by 23.0%PSP 20.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.8% to 43.9% of the vote here (+6.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.8% between them, down from 81.4% — 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
23,207
Margin
5,328
22.96%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1GIAN CHANDIndian National Congress · INC10,18543.9%
- 2GAURI SHANKARPraja Socialist Party · PSP4,85720.9%
- 3PRAKASH CHANDIndependent · IND3,71016.0%
- 4TEK CHANDJS · JS3,62215.6%
- 5SHIV DATTIndependent · IND3411.5%
- 6BASHESHAR DAYALIndependent · IND2781.2%
- 7LAJJAIndependent · IND1200.5%
- 8SHAKUNTLASwatantra Party · SWA940.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- +28.7%
- INC share
- 37.8% → 43.9%
- PSP share
- 43.5% → 20.9%
- Turnout
- — → —