Constituency
42. Hoshiarpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-HOSHIARPUR
INC 53.4%won by 15.6%SOP 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 15.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.9% to 53.4% of the vote here (+23.5%).
- New challengerSOP (SOP) finished second with 37.8% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.2% of the vote between them, up from 68.2% — 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
45,690
Margin
7,140
15.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KUNDAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC24,41253.4%
- 2BALBIR SINGHSOP · SOP17,27237.8%
- 3MUNSHI RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,9256.4%
- 4BHAGAT SINGHIndependent · IND9392.1%
- 5ATMARAMRPK · RPK1420.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SOP swing
- −14.3%
- INC share
- 29.9% → 53.4%
- SOP share
- 0.0% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- — → —