Constituency
121. Amritsar Sadar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-AMRITSAR-SADAR
INC 40.1%won by 6.5%CPI 33.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.2% to 6.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.7% of the vote between them, up from 51.2% — 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
48,110
Margin
3,111
6.47%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1GURMEJ SINGHIndian National Congress · INC19,28940.1%
- 2DARSHAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI16,17833.6%
- 3KHAZAN SINGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD10,58722.0%
- 4KHEM SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA1,7693.7%
- 5BHAN SINGHIndependent · IND2870.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −2.4%
- INC share
- 27.2% → 40.1%
- CPI share
- 18.3% → 33.6%
- Turnout
- — → —