Constituency
140. Anandpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-ANANDPUR
INC 61.1%won by 30.6%IND 30.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.0% to 30.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- 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
42,518
Margin
12,999
30.57%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BALOO RAMIndian National Congress · INC25,98761.1%
- 2SUCHA SINGHIndependent · IND12,98830.5%
- 3RAM NATHJS · JS3,5438.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +21.5%
- INC share
- 54.5% → 61.1%
- IND share
- 45.5% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- — → —