Constituency
26. Amritsar West
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1969
PB-AMRITSAR-WEST
CPI 49.0%won by 15.3%INC 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.7% to 15.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
47,121
Margin
7,200
15.28%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1SATYA PALCommunist Party of India · CPI23,07549.0%
- 2JAI INDER SINGHIndian National Congress · INC15,87533.7%
- 3AMAR SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD7,32915.6%
- 4RAJINDER MOHANIndependent · IND3440.7%
- 5RAM LUBHAYAJMD · JMD1480.3%
- 6BHAN SINGHIndependent · IND1430.3%
- 7MILKHI RAMIndependent · IND1160.2%
- 8RAM LALIndependent · IND910.2%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −8.4%
- CPI share
- 55.4% → 49.0%
- INC share
- 31.7% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —