Constituency
57. Ludhiana North
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-LUDHIANA-NORTH
INC 60.6%won by 43.3%BJP 17.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.7% to 43.3%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.9% between them, down from 96.6% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
59,625
Margin
25,799
43.27%
Candidates
12 contested · winner INC- 1SAT PAL PRASHARIndian National Congress · INC36,12760.6%
- 2KAPUR CHAND JAINBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,32817.3%
- 3NARAIN DASSShiromani Akali Dal · SAD9,56816.0%
- 4SAROOP KISHANIndependent · IND1,8133.0%
- 5DHARAM PAL KAPOORIndependent · IND5270.9%
- 6MAHESHIndependent · IND3940.7%
- 7PREM PALIndependent · IND3110.5%
- 8MULKH RAJIndependent · IND1740.3%
- 9KULDIP SOODIndependent · IND1600.3%
- 10VIRENDER KUMARIndependent · IND960.2%
- 11RAJ KUMARIndependent · IND840.1%
- 12VIJAY KUMARIndependent · IND430.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- +28.6%
- INC share
- 55.6% → 60.6%
- BJP share
- 41.0% → 17.3%
- Turnout
- — → —