Constituency
82. Samana
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-SAMANA
SAD 40.0%won by 4.3%INC 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.3% to 4.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.6% between them, down from 90.1% — 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
46,885
Margin
2,034
4.34%
Candidates
8 contested · winner SAD- 1GURDEV SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD18,74440.0%
- 2BHAJAN LALIndian National Congress · INC16,71035.6%
- 3MAM CHANDIndependent · IND7,09215.1%
- 4PRITAM SINGHIndependent · IND1,4933.2%
- 5MAHIRAMIndependent · IND8581.8%
- 6GURDIAL SINGHIndependent · IND7521.6%
- 7META RAMIndependent · IND6591.4%
- 8PRITAM SINGHIndependent · IND5771.2%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- −7.0%
- SAD share
- 50.7% → 40.0%
- INC share
- 39.4% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —