Constituency
85. Dhanaula
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1977
PB-DHANAULA
CPM 53.0%won by 6.0%INC 47.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 6.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 19.4% to 53.0% of the vote here (+33.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 77.6% — 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
48,707
Margin
2,907
5.97%
Candidates
2 contested · winner CPMSince 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +24.6%
- CPM share
- 19.4% → 53.0%
- INC share
- 38.1% → 47.0%
- Turnout
- — → —