Constituency
71. Samrala
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-SAMRALA
SAD 53.7%won by 10.5%CPI 43.2%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.3% to 10.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.9% of the vote between them, up from 86.7% — 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
57,802
Margin
6,060
10.48%
Candidates
3 contested · winner SAD- 1PREHLAD SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD31,02253.7%
- 2JAGJIT SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI24,96243.2%
- 3KARTAR SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,8183.1%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–CPI swing
- −23.1%
- SAD share
- 45.0% → 53.7%
- CPI share
- 11.4% → 43.2%
- Turnout
- — → —