Constituency
87. Dirbha
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-DIRBHA
SAD 47.8%won by 10.5%INC 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.4% to 10.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 96.2% — 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
57,693
Margin
6,063
10.51%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SAD- 1BALDEV SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD27,55947.8%
- 2CHITWANT SINGHIndian National Congress · INC21,49637.3%
- 3HARI SINGHINCU · INCU7,89913.7%
- 4KARAMJIT SINGHIndependent · IND3890.7%
- 5SADHU SINGHJNPSC · JNPSC3500.6%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- −12.9%
- SAD share
- 59.8% → 47.8%
- INC share
- 36.4% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- — → —