Constituency
5. Abohar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1969
PB-ABOHAR
BJS 46.2%won by 8.8%IND 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Jana Sangh held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.3% to 8.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.6% between them, down from 89.4% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
45,297
Margin
4,004
8.84%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJS- 1SATYA DEVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS20,93646.2%
- 2PARMA NANDIndependent · IND16,93237.4%
- 3TEG RAMIndian National Congress · INC6,39514.1%
- 4SITA RAMIndependent · IND1,0342.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- BJS
- BJS–IND swing
- −39.8%
- BJS share
- 52.8% → 46.2%
- IND share
- 4.1% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- — → —