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140. Kurukshetra

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Haryana · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-KURUKSHETRA

JNPS 37.4%won by 6.6%JNP 30.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to JNPS (JNPS), which now leads by 6.6%.

  • JNPS vote shareJNPS went from 0.0% to 37.4% of the vote here (+37.4%).
  • New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 30.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 68.2% between them, down from 93.9% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 12.2% to 65.5%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
6,50,213
Turnout
65.5%
Valid votes
4,25,976
Margin
27,929
6.56%

Candidates

15 contested · winner JNPS
  1. 1MANOHAR LALJNPS · JNPS1,59,19637.4%
  2. 2BISHAN SINGHJanata Party · JNP1,31,26730.8%
  3. 3JAGJIT SINGH MARWAHAINCI · INCI1,09,57325.7%
  4. 4MILKHI RAM AGGARWALIndependent · IND5,4841.3%
  5. 5JAGDISHIndependent · IND3,8010.9%
  6. 6PRATAP SINGH PAWARIAIndependent · IND3,4460.8%
  7. 7VINOD KUMARIndependent · IND2,4650.6%
  8. 8PHULA RAMIndependent · IND1,8370.4%
  9. 9KAPOORAIndependent · IND1,6540.4%
  10. 10NAND KISHORE BHARDWAJFBL · FBL1,6500.4%
  11. 11VED PRAKASHIndependent · IND1,5750.4%
  12. 12HARBIAL SINGH CHITRANJANAIndependent · IND1,2870.3%
  13. 13MAKHAN LALIndependent · IND1,1780.3%
  14. 14RAGHUNANDAN LAL VAIDIndependent · IND9000.2%
  15. 15ISHWAR CHAND LATKAIndependent · IND6630.2%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
JNPSflipped
JNPS–JNP swing
+6.6%
JNPS share
0.0% → 37.4%
JNP share
0.0% → 30.8%
Turnout
77.7% → 65.5%
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