Constituency
85. Sirhind
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-SIRHIND
SAD 46.4%won by 4.8%INC 41.6%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.3% to 4.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
56,029
Margin
2,697
4.81%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SAD- 1RANDHIR SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD26,00946.4%
- 2NIROTAM SINGHIndian National Congress · INC23,31241.6%
- 3HARPAL SINGHBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS4,5698.2%
- 4MAHAIN SINGHIndependent · IND2,1393.8%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- −12.5%
- SAD share
- 52.7% → 46.4%
- INC share
- 35.4% → 41.6%
- Turnout
- — → —