Constituency

7. Jalalabad

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Punjab Assembly Election, 1972

PB-JALALABAD

CPI 75.1%won by 55.3%SOP 19.8%

What changed here

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The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 55.3%.

CPI vote shareCPI went from 19.0% to 75.1% of the vote here (+56.1%).
New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 19.8% — it did not contest here in 1969.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.9% of the vote between them, up from 77.2% — 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

49,131

Margin

27,186

55.33%

5 contested · winner CPI

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