Constituency
48. Sham Chaurasi
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-SHAM-CHAURASI
INC 41.0%won by 2.5%SAD 38.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.5% to 2.5%.
- New challengerShiromani Akali Dal (SAD) finished second with 38.5% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
58,467
Margin
1,463
2.50%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1HARI MITTERIndian National Congress · INC23,94641.0%
- 2BALDEV SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD22,48338.5%
- 3GURPAL CHANDIndependent · IND7,84513.4%
- 4DEV RAJCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,1783.7%
- 5ASHOK KUMARIndependent · IND9481.6%
- 6GURDEV SINGHIndependent · IND6461.1%
- 7CHARAN DASSIndependent · IND2320.4%
- 8HARBANS LALIndependent · IND1890.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SAD swing
- −38.8%
- INC share
- 41.3% → 41.0%
- SAD share
- 0.0% → 38.5%
- Turnout
- — → —