Constituency
46. Mukerian
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-MUKERIAN
INC 73.6%won by 55.4%BJS 18.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.4% to 55.4%.
- 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
42,617
Margin
23,595
55.37%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1KEWAL KRISHANIndian National Congress · INC31,35373.6%
- 2AMIN CHANDBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,75818.2%
- 3HANS RAJIndependent · IND3,5068.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJS swing
- +47.0%
- INC share
- 48.5% → 73.6%
- BJS share
- 40.1% → 18.2%
- Turnout
- — → —