Constituency
9. Ferozepur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-FEROZEPUR
INC 48.0%won by 8.8%IND 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 43.0% to 48.0% of the vote here (+5.0%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 39.2% — it polled just 0.5% in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.2% between them, down from 92.5% — the field split more ways.
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
41,621
Margin
3,667
8.81%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BAL MUKANDIndian National Congress · INC19,98048.0%
- 2GARDHARA SINGHIndependent · IND16,31339.2%
- 3KULBIR SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS5,32812.8%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −33.6%
- INC share
- 43.0% → 48.0%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- — → —