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45. Garhshankar

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Punjab Assembly Election, 1980

PB-GARHSHANKAR

INC 50.3%won by 6.8%CPI 43.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.8%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 50.3% of the vote here (+50.3%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
47,174
Margin
3,209
6.80%

Candidates

3 contested · winner INC
  1. 1SARWAN RAMIndian National Congress · INC23,74150.3%
  2. 2DARSHAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI20,53243.5%
  3. 3BHAGYA CHANDERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,9016.1%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPI swing
+56.5%
INC share
0.0% → 50.3%
CPI share
49.7% → 43.5%
Turnout
— → —
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