Constituency
65. Dakha
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-DAKHA
SAD 52.2%won by 4.5%INC 47.8%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.2% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 89.1% — 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
48,937
Margin
2,193
4.48%
Candidates
2 contested · winner SAD- 1BASANT SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD25,56552.2%
- 2HARBANS SINGH SAYANIndian National Congress · INC23,37247.8%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- −24.7%
- SAD share
- 59.1% → 52.2%
- INC share
- 30.0% → 47.8%
- Turnout
- — → —