Constituency
124. Batala
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-BATALA
INC 54.8%won by 29.4%IND 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.1% to 29.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Independent (IND).
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
49,820
Margin
14,658
29.42%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MOHAN LALIndian National Congress · INC27,29454.8%
- 2GURBACHAN SINGHIndependent · IND12,63625.4%
- 3RATTAN LALJS · JS9,49119.1%
- 4SOWARAM SINGHIndependent · IND3990.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +4.6%
- INC share
- 41.9% → 54.8%
- IND share
- 17.1% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —