Constituency
50. Ferozepur Jhirka
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-FEROZEPUR-JHIRKA
INC 41.7%won by 24.1%REP 17.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.3% to 24.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerREP (REP) finished second with 17.7% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.4% between them, down from 93.4% — 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
39,753
Margin
9,566
24.06%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1TAYYAB HUSAIN KHANIndian National Congress · INC16,58941.7%
- 2ABDUL GHANIREP · REP7,02317.7%
- 3BANWARI LALIndependent · IND6,87117.3%
- 4ABDUL RAZAKIndependent · IND4,94012.4%
- 5JIWAN KHANCommunist Party of India · CPI1,6174.1%
- 6IMAM KHANIndependent · IND1,5553.9%
- 7FEROZE KHANIndependent · IND7311.8%
- 8PIAYRE LALIndependent · IND4271.1%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–REP swing
- −37.8%
- INC share
- 61.8% → 41.7%
- REP share
- 0.0% → 17.7%
- Turnout
- — → —