Constituency
48. Sultanpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1967
PB-SULTANPUR
INC 40.1%won by 5.7%ADM 34.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.1% to 5.7%.
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 13.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerADM (ADM) finished second with 34.4% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.5% between them, down from 94.1% — 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
44,259
Margin
2,532
5.72%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1B. SINGHIndian National Congress · INC17,74340.1%
- 2A. SINGHADM · ADM15,21134.4%
- 3J. SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI8,99720.3%
- 4M. SINGHIndependent · IND9142.1%
- 5PIARAPraja Socialist Party · PSP7961.8%
- 6S. SINGHIndependent · IND5981.4%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–ADM swing
- −47.9%
- INC share
- 53.6% → 40.1%
- ADM share
- 0.0% → 34.4%
- Turnout
- — → —