Constituency
44. Balachaur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-BALACHAUR
INC 52.0%won by 19.8%JNP 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 16.6% to 52.0% of the vote here (+35.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.2% of the vote between them, up from 47.1% — 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
50,137
Margin
9,933
19.81%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DALIP CHANDIndian National Congress · INC26,07252.0%
- 2RAM KISHAN KATARIAJanata Party · JNP16,13932.2%
- 3GURMAIL SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC5,61111.2%
- 4BANT RAMIndependent · IND1,1452.3%
- 5RAM KISHAN CHOWDHRYIndependent · IND7301.5%
- 6DARSHANIndependent · IND4400.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNP swing
- +27.5%
- INC share
- 16.6% → 52.0%
- JNP share
- 24.3% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —