Election
Constituency

38. Nawan Shahr

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Punjab Assembly Election, 1985

PB-NAWAN-SHAHR

INC 39.8%won by 5.0%SAD 34.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.0%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 18.3% to 39.8% of the vote here (+21.5%).
  • 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
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
80,148
Margin
4,025
5.02%

Candidates

6 contested · winner INC
  1. 1DILBAGH SINGHIndian National Congress · INC31,89539.8%
  2. 2JATINDER SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD27,87034.8%
  3. 3HARBHAJAN RAMIndependent · IND17,03821.3%
  4. 4GAIN SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,3923.0%
  5. 5SURINDER KUMARIndependent · IND4930.6%
  6. 6AMRIT LALIndependent · IND4600.6%

Since 1980

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–SAD swing
+12.5%
INC share
18.3% → 39.8%
SAD share
25.8% → 34.8%
Turnout
— → —
37. Banga39. Phillaur
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