Constituency
44. Jhajjar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-JHAJJAR
INC 50.2%won by 2.2%HLS 48.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.4% to 2.2%.
- New challengerHLS (HLS) finished second with 48.0% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.2% of the vote between them, up from 46.7% — 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
58,599
Margin
1,282
2.19%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BHAGWAT DAYALIndian National Congress · INC29,40450.2%
- 2SHER SINGHHLS · HLS28,12248.0%
- 3MURARIIndependent · IND1,0731.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–HLS swing
- −21.9%
- INC share
- 24.0% → 50.2%
- HLS share
- 0.0% → 48.0%
- Turnout
- — → —