Constituency
141. Rajpura
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-RAJPURA
INC 45.2%won by 14.6%CPI 30.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.2% to 14.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.9% between them, down from 83.7% — the field split more ways.
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
50,381
Margin
7,336
14.56%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1PREM SINGHIndian National Congress · INC22,78845.2%
- 2BHIM SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI15,45230.7%
- 3GANGA RAMJS · JS9,92519.7%
- 4HARI SINGHIndependent · IND2,2164.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −12.6%
- INC share
- 55.4% → 45.2%
- CPI share
- 28.3% → 30.7%
- Turnout
- — → —