Constituency
24. Amritsar South
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-AMRITSAR-SOUTH
INC 37.1%won by 4.9%SOP 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 17.1% to 37.1% of the vote here (+20.0%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 32.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.3% between them, down from 81.3% — 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
44,190
Margin
2,162
4.89%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1PIRTHIPAL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC16,39937.1%
- 2KIRPAL SINGHSOP · SOP14,23732.2%
- 3BALRAM DASS TANDONBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS13,02529.5%
- 4GOPAL DASSIndependent · IND4050.9%
- 5SOHAN SINGHIndependent · IND1240.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −12.2%
- INC share
- 17.1% → 37.1%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —