Constituency
59. Banga
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-BANGA
INC 54.0%won by 19.3%IND 34.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.8% to 19.3%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 34.8% — it polled just 1.6% in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.8% of the vote between them, up from 82.9% — 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
39,324
Margin
7,572
19.26%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1JAGAT RAMIndian National Congress · INC21,24854.0%
- 2BALWANT SINGH SARHALIndependent · IND13,67634.8%
- 3PRITAMShiromani Akali Dal · SAD4,40011.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −29.5%
- INC share
- 50.3% → 54.0%
- IND share
- 1.6% → 34.8%
- Turnout
- — → —