Constituency
47. Kapurthala
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-KAPURTHALA
INC 51.7%won by 5.8%SAD 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 41.3% to 51.7% of the vote here (+10.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.5% of the vote between them, up from 92.4% — 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
57,645
Margin
3,334
5.78%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KIRPAL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC29,77851.7%
- 2SUKHJINDER SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD26,44445.9%
- 3RANJIT SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS1,0361.8%
- 4JAGIRSINGHIndependent · IND3870.7%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SAD swing
- +15.5%
- INC share
- 41.3% → 51.7%
- SAD share
- 51.1% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- — → —