Constituency
153. Sunam
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-SUNAM
INC 60.4%won by 25.1%AD 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 25.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.3% to 60.4% of the vote here (+40.1%).
- New challengerApna Dal (Kamerawadi) (AD) finished second with 35.3% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.7% of the vote between them, up from 47.3% — 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
51,435
Margin
12,927
25.13%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BRISH BHANIndian National Congress · INC31,08060.4%
- 2GURDEV SINGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD18,15335.3%
- 3NARAYAN DATTIndependent · IND1,7433.4%
- 4MEHAR CHANDIndependent · IND4590.9%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–AD swing
- +4.8%
- INC share
- 20.3% → 60.4%
- AD share
- 0.0% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- — → —