Constituency
88. Sunam
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1985
PB-SUNAM
SAD 53.9%won by 16.7%INC 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.7% to 16.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
63,001
Margin
10,530
16.71%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SAD- 1SUKHDEV SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD33,93953.9%
- 2KRISHAN CHANDERIndian National Congress · INC23,40937.2%
- 3BALBIR SINGHIndependent · IND3,8406.1%
- 4PREM CHANDIndependent · IND1,6132.6%
- 5BHARBNUR SINGHIndependent · IND2000.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- −9.0%
- SAD share
- 58.9% → 53.9%
- INC share
- 33.2% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- — → —