Constituency
37. Narot Mehra
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-NAROT-MEHRA
INC 65.1%won by 41.4%BJS 23.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.5% to 41.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.8% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
36,167
Margin
14,982
41.42%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SUNDER SINGHIndian National Congress · INC23,54565.1%
- 2MAHASHA PURAN CHANDBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS8,56323.7%
- 3PIARA LALIndependent · IND4,05911.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +21.9%
- INC share
- 59.8% → 65.1%
- BJS share
- 40.2% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- — → —