Constituency
5. Abohar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-ABOHAR
INC 61.1%won by 31.9%BJS 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 31.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 14.1% to 61.1% of the vote here (+47.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.3% of the vote between them, up from 83.6% — 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
46,695
Margin
14,889
31.89%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1BAL RAMIndian National Congress · INC28,51761.1%
- 2SATYA DEVBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,62829.2%
- 3PARMA NANDIndependent · IND3,1326.7%
- 4SARTRAM RAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9552.0%
- 5DYAL SINGHIndependent · IND2390.5%
- 6BALDEV KRISHANIndependent · IND2240.5%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJS swing
- +64.0%
- INC share
- 14.1% → 61.1%
- BJS share
- 46.2% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —