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Constituency

82. Sherpur

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Punjab Assembly Election, 1980

PB-SHERPUR

CPM 58.6%won by 23.3%INC 35.3%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.3% to 23.3%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.3% — 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
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
51,625
Margin
12,046
23.33%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPMINC swing
−7.9%
CPM share
64.9% 58.6%
INC share
33.6% 35.3%
Turnout