Constituency
56. Qila Raipur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-QILA-RAIPUR
SAD 46.5%won by 1.6%INC 44.8%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.4% to 1.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 44.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.3% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
52,827
Margin
868
1.64%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SAD- 1ARJAN SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD24,55446.5%
- 2GURBIR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC23,68644.8%
- 3HARBANS SINGHIndependent · IND4,4788.5%
- 4BALBIR SINGHIndependent · IND1090.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- −54.6%
- SAD share
- 56.2% → 46.5%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 44.8%
- Turnout
- — → —