Constituency
143. Samana
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-SAMANA
INC 48.0%won by 4.6%AD 43.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.4% to 4.6%.
- New challengerApna Dal (Kamerawadi) (AD) finished second with 43.4% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.4% of the vote between them, up from 54.2% — 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
48,580
Margin
2,238
4.61%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1HARCHAND SINGHIndian National Congress · INC23,31648.0%
- 2PRITAM SINGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD21,07843.4%
- 3SURAT RAMJS · JS2,1564.4%
- 4GURDEV SINGHIndependent · IND2,0304.2%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AD swing
- −23.2%
- INC share
- 27.8% → 48.0%
- AD share
- 0.0% → 43.4%
- Turnout
- — → —