Constituency
20. Ajnala
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-AJNALA
SAD 57.0%won by 30.4%INC 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 30.4%.
- SAD vote shareSAD went from 41.1% to 57.0% of the vote here (+15.9%).
- Safe seatShiromani Akali Dal won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
62,372
Margin
18,958
30.40%
Candidates
6 contested · winner SAD- 1RATAN SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD35,55257.0%
- 2AJAIB SINGHIndian National Congress · INC16,59426.6%
- 3MEHNGA RAMIndependent · IND5,2688.4%
- 4HAZARA SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,9926.4%
- 5LABHAYAIndependent · IND5380.9%
- 6BALBIR SINGHIndependent · IND4280.7%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SADflipped
- SAD–INC swing
- +36.2%
- SAD share
- 41.1% → 57.0%
- INC share
- 46.9% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- — → —