Constituency
16. Amritsar North
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-AMRITSAR-NORTH
INC 55.2%won by 18.7%BJP 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.7%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.4% to 55.2% of the vote here (+10.8%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 36.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.7% between them, down from 97.7% — 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
48,873
Margin
9,120
18.66%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1BRIJ BHUSHAN MEHRAIndian National Congress · INC26,96555.2%
- 2HARBANS LAL KHANNABharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,84536.5%
- 3SARUP SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD2,9096.0%
- 4PARKASH CHANDIndependent · IND3680.8%
- 5KARTAR CHANDIndependent · IND2170.4%
- 6CHAMAN LAL SATHIIndependent · IND1300.3%
- 7KARTAR SINGHIndependent · IND1190.2%
- 8KRISHAN GOPALIndependent · IND1150.2%
- 9RAJU MEHRAIndependent · IND960.2%
- 10HARBANS LAL SAREENIndependent · IND490.1%
- 11DHARAM VIRIndependent · IND410.1%
- 12INDERJIT SINGHIndependent · IND190.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −25.7%
- INC share
- 44.4% → 55.2%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- — → —