Constituency
26. Amritsar West
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-AMRITSAR-WEST
CPI 67.8%won by 38.0%IND 29.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.3% to 38.0%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 29.8% — it polled just 0.7% in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.6% of the vote between them, up from 82.7% — 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
43,905
Margin
16,693
38.02%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1SAT PALCommunist Party of India · CPI29,77967.8%
- 2MEHNGA SINGHIndependent · IND13,08629.8%
- 3MEHTA BALDEV DATTNCO · NCO1,0402.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–IND swing
- −10.2%
- CPI share
- 49.0% → 67.8%
- IND share
- 0.7% → 29.8%
- Turnout
- — → —