Constituency
365. Phillaur
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-PHILLAUR
INC 41.3%won by 9.5%RPI 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.1% to 9.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerRPI (RPI) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.2% between them, down from 93.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.3% to 68.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,81,616
Turnout
68.3%
Valid votes
3,29,026
Margin
31,286
9.51%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1S. RAMIndian National Congress · INC1,36,04641.3%
- 2D. CHANDRPI · RPI1,04,76031.8%
- 3M. SINGHADM · ADM35,44010.8%
- 4R.S. DASIndependent · IND32,0989.8%
- 5T. RAMIndependent · IND20,6826.3%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–RPI swing
- −38.7%
- INC share
- 48.2% → 41.3%
- RPI share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- 64.0% → 68.3%