Constituency
48. Sham Chaurasi
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-SHAM-CHAURASI
INC 41.3%won by 3.5%CPM 37.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 3.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.0% between them, down from 93.1% — the field split more ways.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
48,170
Margin
1,703
3.54%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1HARI MITTAR HANSIndian National Congress · INC19,87341.3%
- 2DEV RAJCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,17037.7%
- 3RAM RATTANINCU · INCU5,85312.2%
- 4KEHAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,4423.0%
- 5MOOLA SINGHJNPSR · JNPSR8671.8%
- 6PIARAIndependent · IND6051.3%
- 7GURBUX RAMJNPSC · JNPSC5511.1%
- 8GURPAL CHAND SAROYAIndependent · IND4180.9%
- 9DAULAT RAMIndependent · IND3910.8%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +17.9%
- INC share
- 39.4% → 41.3%
- CPM share
- 53.7% → 37.7%
- Turnout
- — → —