Constituency
43. Sham Chaurasi
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-SHAM-CHAURASI
INC 53.8%won by 12.7%CPM 41.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.7% to 12.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.9% of the vote between them, up from 65.1% — 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
40,911
Margin
5,203
12.72%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1GURANDASSIndian National Congress · INC22,01853.8%
- 2DEVRAJCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,81541.1%
- 3LALJI RAMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS2,0785.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +0.7%
- INC share
- 36.9% → 53.8%
- CPM share
- 24.9% → 41.1%
- Turnout
- — → —