Constituency
27. Valtoha
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-VALTOHA
SAD 46.4%won by 3.9%INC 42.5%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.7% to 3.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.9% between them, down from 97.5% — 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
51,327
Margin
2,027
3.95%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SAD- 1MAJOR SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD23,82246.4%
- 2GURSEWAK SINGHIndian National Congress · INC21,79542.5%
- 3ARJAN SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI4,1488.1%
- 4JASWANT SINGHIndependent · IND1,5623.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- −2.8%
- SAD share
- 52.1% → 46.4%
- INC share
- 45.4% → 42.5%
- Turnout
- — → —