Constituency
60. Ludhiana Rural
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-LUDHIANA-RURAL
INC 53.0%won by 22.1%CPM 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 22.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 44.3% to 53.0% of the vote here (+8.7%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.9% between them, down from 96.0% — 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
57,755
Margin
12,735
22.05%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1BIR PAUL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC30,60953.0%
- 2JAGJIT SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,87430.9%
- 3MOHAN SINGHIndependent · IND3,7736.5%
- 4BALDEV RAJBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,1065.4%
- 5DHARAMJIT SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC1,4012.4%
- 6MALKIT SINGHIndependent · IND5210.9%
- 7RAGHBIR SINGHIndependent · IND1900.3%
- 8CHHADI LALIndependent · IND1800.3%
- 9HARDEV SINGHIndependent · IND1010.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −22.3%
- INC share
- 44.3% → 53.0%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —