Constituency
24. Amritsar South
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1969
PB-AMRITSAR-SOUTH
PSP 45.9%won by 10.5%BJS 35.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Praja Socialist Party (PSP), which now leads by 10.5%.
- PSP vote sharePSP went from 42.1% to 45.9% of the vote here (+3.8%).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
44,204
Margin
4,632
10.48%
Candidates
7 contested · winner PSP- 1KIRPAL SINGHPraja Socialist Party · PSP20,28245.9%
- 2HARBANS LALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS15,65035.4%
- 3HIRA LALIndian National Congress · INC7,55017.1%
- 4MOHAN SINGHIndependent · IND5161.2%
- 5DWARKA DASSIndependent · IND1330.3%
- 6JASWANT SINGHIndependent · IND510.1%
- 7RAM SINGHIndependent · IND220.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- PSPflipped
- PSP–BJS swing
- +12.3%
- PSP share
- 42.1% → 45.9%
- BJS share
- 43.9% → 35.4%
- Turnout
- — → —