Constituency
19. Amritsar South
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-AMRITSAR-SOUTH
JNP 50.1%won by 16.3%INC 33.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 16.3%.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 46.9% to 50.1% of the vote here (+3.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.9% between them, down from 97.0% — 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
56,845
Margin
9,260
16.29%
Candidates
11 contested · winner JNP- 1KIRPAL SINGH S/O UTTAM SINGHJanata Party · JNP28,48250.1%
- 2PIRTHI PAL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC19,22233.8%
- 3OM PRAKASH KALIABharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,73513.6%
- 4KIRPAL SINGH S/O KARTAR SINGHIndependent · IND6681.2%
- 5ISHAR SINGHIndependent · IND1980.3%
- 6AVTAR SINGHIndependent · IND1380.2%
- 7SHAM LALIndependent · IND1230.2%
- 8AMARJIT SINGHIndependent · IND880.2%
- 9CHETANIndependent · IND790.1%
- 10JAGMOHAN SINGH BEDIIndependent · IND740.1%
- 11DEVI DASSIndependent · IND380.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–INC swing
- +19.5%
- JNP share
- 46.9% → 50.1%
- INC share
- 50.1% → 33.8%
- Turnout
- — → —