Constituency
131. Mukerian
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-MUKERIAN
INC 37.7%won by 13.3%IND 24.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.7% to 13.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 62.1% of the vote between them, up from 49.9% — 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
47,089
Margin
6,273
13.32%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RALA RAMIndian National Congress · INC17,75937.7%
- 2SHANTI SARUPIndependent · IND11,48624.4%
- 3YOUGINDER SINGHIndependent · IND8,82918.7%
- 4CHANAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI5,27211.2%
- 5MANGAL SINGHREP · REP3,7437.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −6.1%
- INC share
- 25.8% → 37.7%
- IND share
- 6.4% → 24.4%
- Turnout
- — → —