Constituency
78. Rajpura
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1969
PB-RAJPURA
BJS 57.3%won by 25.3%INC 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), which now leads by 25.3%.
- BJS vote shareBJS went from 18.3% to 57.3% of the vote here (+39.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.4% of the vote between them, up from 50.0% — 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
41,441
Margin
10,476
25.28%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJS- 1HARBANS LALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS23,75557.3%
- 2SHANTI PARKASHIndian National Congress · INC13,27932.0%
- 3KARTAR SINGHSwatantra Party · SWA3,4598.3%
- 4RACHHPAL SINGHIndependent · IND6321.5%
- 5CHUMAR RAMPolitical Justice Party · PJP3160.8%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJSflipped
- BJS–INC swing
- +36.7%
- BJS share
- 18.3% → 57.3%
- INC share
- 29.7% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —