Constituency
98. Dharamkot
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1980
PB-DHARAMKOT
CPI 63.7%won by 34.2%INC 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.4% to 34.2%.
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 29.5% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.2% of the vote between them, up from 72.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
41,873
Margin
14,313
34.18%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1SARWAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI26,66463.7%
- 2MUKHTIAR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,35129.5%
- 3RAJIndependent · IND2,3505.6%
- 4NAWABIndependent · IND5081.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–INC swing
- −3.3%
- CPI share
- 37.4% → 63.7%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- — → —