Constituency
28. Adampur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-ADAMPUR
CPI 43.0%won by 9.1%INC 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 9.1%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 30.1% to 43.0% of the vote here (+12.8%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 33.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.8% of the vote between them, up from 68.5% — 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
59,047
Margin
5,400
9.15%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1KULWANT SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI25,36843.0%
- 2IQBAL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC19,96833.8%
- 3SARUP SINGHINCU · INCU10,82818.3%
- 4TARLOCHAN SINGHIndependent · IND1,5882.7%
- 5SUDESH SINGHJNPSR · JNPSR1,2952.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- −21.0%
- CPI share
- 30.1% → 43.0%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- — → —