Constituency
58. Dadri
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-DADRI
INC 50.6%won by 15.4%CPI 35.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 16.7% to 50.6% of the vote here (+33.9%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 35.2% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.8% of the vote between them, up from 40.8% — 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
41,818
Margin
6,433
15.38%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1CHANDRAWATIIndian National Congress · INC21,15550.6%
- 2DHARAM SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI14,72235.2%
- 3SHAMSHER SINGHIndependent · IND5,94114.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- −1.3%
- INC share
- 16.7% → 50.6%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 35.2%
- Turnout
- — → —