Constituency
34. Sambhalka
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-SAMBHALKA
INC 56.7%won by 15.9%SWA 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 35.8% to 56.7% of the vote here (+20.9%).
- New challengerSwatantra Party (SWA) finished second with 40.8% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.5% of the vote between them, up from 84.4% — 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
51,339
Margin
8,176
15.93%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1CHUHAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC29,11956.7%
- 2DHARAM SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA20,94340.8%
- 3LAL SINGHIndependent · IND8961.7%
- 4SURJANIndependent · IND3810.7%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SWA swing
- −19.9%
- INC share
- 35.8% → 56.7%
- SWA share
- 0.0% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —