Constituency
71. Rajpura
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-RAJPURA
CPM 43.5%won by 15.7%INC 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 15.7%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 43.5% of the vote here (+43.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.3% between them, down from 93.7% — 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
53,769
Margin
8,415
15.65%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1BALWANT SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM23,38043.5%
- 2BIRJ LALIndian National Congress · INC14,96527.8%
- 3HARBANS LALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,99414.9%
- 4SAT PARKASHIndependent · IND3,8157.1%
- 5SHINGARA SINGHIndependent · IND1,7233.2%
- 6SARDARA SINGHIndependent · IND5391.0%
- 7JAGJIWAN RAMIndependent · IND4780.9%
- 8MURARI LALIndependent · IND3490.6%
- 9RAJ KUMAR S/O SANTU RAMIndependent · IND3440.6%
- 10RAJ KUMAR S/O GOBIND RAMIndependent · IND1820.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +48.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 43.5%
- INC share
- 32.7% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- — → —