Constituency
62. Kum Kalan
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-KUM-KALAN
CPM 46.9%won by 2.5%INC 44.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.8% to 2.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
46,068
Margin
1,134
2.46%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1DAYA SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM21,62846.9%
- 2SHIAM SINGHIndian National Congress · INC20,49444.5%
- 3RAM CHANDJNPSC · JNPSC2,5845.6%
- 4HAZARA SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,3623.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −6.4%
- CPM share
- 50.3% → 46.9%
- INC share
- 41.5% → 44.5%
- Turnout
- — → —