Constituency
72. Ghanaur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-GHANAUR
SAD 45.6%won by 5.3%INC 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.4% to 5.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.0% between them, down from 95.9% — 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
59,200
Margin
3,110
5.25%
Candidates
9 contested · winner SAD- 1JASDEV SINGH SANDHUShiromani Akali Dal · SAD27,01945.6%
- 2KARANBIR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC23,90940.4%
- 3PREM SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,1568.7%
- 4SINGHARA SINGHIndependent · IND1,3632.3%
- 5LAKHBIR SINGHIndependent · IND7301.2%
- 6JAGDEV SINGHIndependent · IND3510.6%
- 7PIARA SINGHIndependent · IND3150.5%
- 8HARI SINGHIndependent · IND2220.4%
- 9MANJIT SINGHIndependent · IND1350.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- +3.9%
- SAD share
- 48.7% → 45.6%
- INC share
- 47.3% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- — → —