Constituency
24. Butana
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-BUTANA
INC 37.4%won by 8.2%SWA 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.9% to 8.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 25.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 29.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.7% between them, down from 84.5% — 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
48,322
Margin
3,978
8.23%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1MALTAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC18,09437.4%
- 2SHIV RAMSwatantra Party · SWA14,11629.2%
- 3AJIT SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI7,70315.9%
- 4NARENDRA NATHIndependent · IND3,9538.2%
- 5BANWARI LALIndependent · IND1,9294.0%
- 6CHATTAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,5243.2%
- 7RAM SARUPIndependent · IND1,0032.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SWA swing
- −54.5%
- INC share
- 62.7% → 37.4%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —