Constituency
13. Nihal Singh Wala
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1967
PB-NIHAL-SINGH-WALA
CPI 43.3%won by 12.8%INC 30.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.5% to 12.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
35,149
Margin
4,484
12.76%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1M. SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI15,20443.3%
- 2S. SINGHIndian National Congress · INC10,72030.5%
- 3M. SINGHADM · ADM4,12011.7%
- 4K. SINGHIndependent · IND3,3279.5%
- 5K. SINGHIndependent · IND1,7785.1%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- +10.3%
- CPI share
- 51.2% → 43.3%
- INC share
- 48.8% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- — → —