Constituency
139. Garhshankar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-GARHSHANKAR
INC 59.6%won by 36.0%CPI 23.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 36.0%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.3% of the vote between them, up from 49.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
46,626
Margin
16,770
35.97%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1RATTAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC27,79559.6%
- 2BHAG SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI11,02523.6%
- 3YASHPAL SINGHJS · JS3,7818.1%
- 4SANSAR CHANDREP · REP3,4827.5%
- 5ASSAIndependent · IND4030.9%
- 6VIRENDER NATHIndependent · IND1400.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- +34.1%
- INC share
- 25.9% → 59.6%
- CPI share
- 24.0% → 23.6%
- Turnout
- — → —