Constituency
5. Kahnuwan
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-KAHNUWAN
SAD 61.1%won by 33.2%INC 27.9%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.8% to 33.2%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.0% between them, down from 97.5% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatShiromani Akali Dal won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
44,472
Margin
14,759
33.19%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SAD- 1JOHAR SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD27,17361.1%
- 2SURINDEJIT SINGHIndian National Congress · INC12,41427.9%
- 3AJIT SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,0089.0%
- 4JATINDER SINGHIndependent · IND5391.2%
- 5JASBIR SINGHIndependent · IND3380.8%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- +32.4%
- SAD share
- 49.1% → 61.1%
- INC share
- 48.4% → 27.9%
- Turnout
- — → —