Constituency
40. Garhshankar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1969
PB-GARHSHANKAR
INC 39.3%won by 3.6%CPI 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.3% to 3.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered4 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
45,749
Margin
1,665
3.64%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RATTAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC17,96139.3%
- 2DARSHAN SINGH CANADIANCommunist Party of India · CPI16,29635.6%
- 3JAGDISH SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,53716.5%
- 4HARBHAJ RAMIndependent · IND3,9558.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −11.6%
- INC share
- 45.0% → 39.3%
- CPI share
- 29.7% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —