Constituency
63. Raikot
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-RAIKOT
SAD 47.7%won by 6.2%INC 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.3% to 6.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.1% between them, down from 98.1% — the field split more ways.
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
55,641
Margin
3,431
6.17%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SAD- 1JAGDEV SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD26,51747.7%
- 2SATWANT SINGHIndian National Congress · INC23,08641.5%
- 3RACHHPAL SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,2607.7%
- 4GURDEV SINGHIndependent · IND1,1872.1%
- 5PIARA SINGHIndependent · IND5911.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- −5.1%
- SAD share
- 54.7% → 47.7%
- INC share
- 43.4% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- — → —