Constituency
49. Phagwara
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1969
PB-PHAGWARA
INC 47.9%won by 3.3%BJS 44.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.3% to 3.3%.
- New challengerBharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) finished second with 44.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 64.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
46,520
Margin
1,553
3.34%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SADHU RAMIndian National Congress · INC22,28947.9%
- 2SWARNABharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS20,73644.6%
- 3GARDHARA SINGHIndependent · IND2,3045.0%
- 4JOGINDER PAULRPA · RPA1,1912.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- −33.3%
- INC share
- 36.6% → 47.9%
- BJS share
- 0.0% → 44.6%
- Turnout
- — → —