Constituency
23. Tarn Taran
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-TARN-TARAN
SAD 50.2%won by 17.1%INC 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.3% to 17.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.3% between them, down from 95.7% — 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
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
54,173
Margin
9,270
17.11%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SAD- 1PREM SINGH LALPURAShiromani Akali Dal · SAD27,19950.2%
- 2SURINDER SINGH SHAHIIndian National Congress · INC17,92933.1%
- 3STALINJIT SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI7,99614.8%
- 4HARJIT SINGHIndependent · IND1,0491.9%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- +6.9%
- SAD share
- 53.0% → 50.2%
- INC share
- 42.7% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —