Constituency
78. Rajpura
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-RAJPURA
INC 40.4%won by 9.2%SAD 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.0% to 40.4% of the vote here (+8.4%).
- New challengerShiromani Akali Dal (SAD) finished second with 31.2% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.7% between them, down from 89.4% — 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
47,233
Margin
4,343
9.19%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1BRIJ LALIndian National Congress · INC19,10140.4%
- 2JOGINDER SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD14,75831.2%
- 3HARBANS LALBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS7,25315.4%
- 4DARSHAN SINGHNCO · NCO5,27711.2%
- 5HARI CHANDSwatantra Party · SWA3640.8%
- 6YASH AGGARWALIndependent · IND3340.7%
- 7SAHIB SINGHIndependent · IND1460.3%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SAD swing
- −22.8%
- INC share
- 32.0% → 40.4%
- SAD share
- 0.0% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- — → —