Constituency
74. Ropar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-ROPAR
INC 51.0%won by 21.0%IND 30.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 21.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.0% to 51.0% of the vote here (+7.0%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 30.0% — it polled just 1.6% in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.1% between them, down from 98.4% — 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
41,916
Margin
8,788
20.97%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1GURBACHAN SINGHIndian National Congress · INC21,38351.0%
- 2HARCHAND SINGHIndependent · IND12,59530.0%
- 3AMAR SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD4,20610.0%
- 4HARGOPAL SINGHNCO · NCO1,5523.7%
- 5KARNAIL SINGHIndependent · IND1,0612.5%
- 6HARKARAN SINGHIndependent · IND6531.6%
- 7DR. KRISHANIndependent · IND3650.9%
- 8ANUP SINGHIndependent · IND1010.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −21.4%
- INC share
- 44.0% → 51.0%
- IND share
- 1.6% → 30.0%
- Turnout
- — → —