Constituency
18. Amritsar Central
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-AMRITSAR-CENTRAL
INC 46.9%won by 1.0%BJP 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.7% to 1.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.7% between them, down from 98.9% — 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
43,709
Margin
436
1.00%
Candidates
14 contested · winner INC- 1DARBARI LALIndian National Congress · INC20,48646.9%
- 2LAXMI KANTA CHAWLABharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,05045.9%
- 3NAGIN CHANDIndependent · IND8832.0%
- 4BHAVANI KUMARIndependent · IND6371.5%
- 5VINOD KAPOOR VICKYIndependent · IND4321.0%
- 6DWARKA DASSIndependent · IND3920.9%
- 7BABU RAMIndependent · IND1890.4%
- 8ASHOK KUMARIndependent · IND1570.4%
- 9HANS RAJIndependent · IND1280.3%
- 10BALWANT SINGHIndependent · IND1060.2%
- 11PAWAN KUMARIndependent · IND790.2%
- 12HARISH KUMARIndependent · IND650.1%
- 13KAMAL KISHOREIndependent · IND580.1%
- 14BALWANT RAIIndependent · IND470.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −14.7%
- INC share
- 57.3% → 46.9%
- BJP share
- 41.6% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- — → —