Constituency
89. Barnala
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1972
PB-BARNALA
SAD 56.9%won by 21.3%INC 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.8% to 21.3%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.5% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- 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
52,968
Margin
11,303
21.34%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SAD- 1SURJIT SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD30,15256.9%
- 2ONKAR CHANDIndian National Congress · INC18,84935.6%
- 3SOM NATHIndependent · IND3,1085.9%
- 4NATHA SINGHIndependent · IND8591.6%
Since 1969
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- +15.5%
- SAD share
- 52.9% → 56.9%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —