Constituency
86. Dhuri
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-DHURI
CPI 47.5%won by 5.5%SAD 42.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.5%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 0.0% to 47.5% of the vote here (+47.5%).
- New challengerShiromani Akali Dal (SAD) finished second with 42.0% — it did not contest here in 1969.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.5% of the vote between them, up from 81.1% — 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
48,795
Margin
2,660
5.45%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1ACHHRA SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI23,16547.5%
- 2SANT SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD20,50542.0%
- 3KARTAR SINGHIndependent · IND2,8035.7%
- 4PARKASH SINGHNCO · NCO6691.4%
- 5SADHU SINGHIndependent · IND5741.2%
- 6BACHAN KAURIndependent · IND5381.1%
- 7RAKSHA PAUL KAURIndependent · IND3490.7%
- 8BACHAN SINGHIndependent · IND1920.4%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–SAD swing
- +5.5%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 47.5%
- SAD share
- 0.0% → 42.0%
- Turnout
- — → —