Constituency
37. Rai
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-RAI
INC 38.1%won by 22.2%HLS 15.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 22.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.9% to 38.1% of the vote here (+3.2%).
- New challengerHLS (HLS) finished second with 15.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 53.9% between them, down from 70.2% — 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
44,824
Margin
9,960
22.22%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1RIZAQ RAMIndian National Congress · INC17,07138.1%
- 2NAFE SINGHHLS · HLS7,11115.9%
- 3JASWANT SINGHIndependent · IND7,06915.8%
- 4HUKAM SINGHIndependent · IND5,72412.8%
- 5SARDAR SINGHIndependent · IND4,2089.4%
- 6HUKAM CHANDIndependent · IND1,7033.8%
- 7KALI RAMIndependent · IND1,0182.3%
- 8BANWARI LALIndependent · IND7231.6%
- 9SHRI KRISHANIndependent · IND1970.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–HLS swing
- −12.6%
- INC share
- 34.9% → 38.1%
- HLS share
- 0.0% → 15.9%
- Turnout
- — → —