Constituency
46. Mahilpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-MAHILPUR
SAD 47.5%won by 9.4%INC 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.9% to 9.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.7% between them, down from 96.9% — 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
49,661
Margin
4,689
9.44%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SAD- 1JAGDISH KAURShiromani Akali Dal · SAD23,61347.5%
- 2GURMAIL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC18,92438.1%
- 3SATNAM SINGHIndependent · IND5,69311.5%
- 4GURDEV SINGHIndependent · IND7741.6%
- 5RAVINDER KUMARIndependent · IND6571.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- −5.4%
- SAD share
- 55.9% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 41.0% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —