Constituency
81. Malerkotla
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-MALERKOTLA
SAD 50.0%won by 7.5%INC 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 7.5%.
- SAD vote shareSAD went from 29.4% to 50.0% of the vote here (+20.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.4% of the vote between them, up from 79.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
76,310
Margin
5,748
7.53%
Candidates
9 contested · winner SAD- 1NUSRAT ALI KHANShiromani Akali Dal · SAD38,13950.0%
- 2ABDUL GAFOORIndian National Congress · INC32,39142.4%
- 3ILTAFUR REHMANCommunist Party of India · CPI3,3134.3%
- 4KARTARAIndependent · IND1,1541.5%
- 5AZHAR MOHAMUDIndependent · IND5100.7%
- 6ABRAHIMIndependent · IND3380.4%
- 7DEEPAK RAIIndependent · IND2240.3%
- 8SHABIR AHMEDIndependent · IND1530.2%
- 9AZHAR ALI KHANIndependent · IND880.1%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SADflipped
- SAD–INC swing
- +28.4%
- SAD share
- 29.4% → 50.0%
- INC share
- 50.3% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- — → —