Constituency
82. Sherpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-SHERPUR
CPM 58.6%won by 23.3%INC 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist 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
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Turnout
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Valid votes
51,625
Margin
12,046
23.33%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1CHAND SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM30,26658.6%
- 2JOGINDER SINGHIndian National Congress · INC18,22035.3%
- 3PIARA SINGHIndependent · IND2,8055.4%
- 4BARU SINGHIndependent · IND3340.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −7.9%
- CPM share
- 64.9% → 58.6%
- INC share
- 33.6% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- — → —