Constituency
12. Beas
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-BEAS
INC 44.3%won by 5.0%SAD 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.5% between them, down from 97.3% — the field split more ways.
- 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
57,708
Margin
2,913
5.05%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SANT SINGHIndian National Congress · INC25,56444.3%
- 2SUKHDEV SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD22,65139.3%
- 3NAZAR SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,49316.5%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SAD swing
- +7.8%
- INC share
- 47.3% → 44.3%
- SAD share
- 50.0% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- — → —