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323. Gurdaspur

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Punjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980

IN-GURDASPUR

INCI 58.5%won by 35.5%JNP 23.1%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: BLD (BLD) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 35.5%.

  • INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 58.5% of the vote here (+58.5%).
  • New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 23.1% — it did not contest here in 1977.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.6% between them, down from 94.8% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 8.8% to 62.6%.

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

Electorate
6,83,185
Turnout
62.6%
Valid votes
4,27,959
Margin
1,51,739
35.46%

Candidates

10 contested · winner INCI
  1. 1SUKHBANS KAURINCI · INCI2,50,45258.5%
  2. 2P.N.LEKHIJanata Party · JNP98,71323.1%
  3. 3KHUSHHAL BAHLINCU · INCU37,9468.9%
  4. 4RANDHIR SINGHIndependent · IND17,0874.0%
  5. 5MELA RAMIndependent · IND7,0401.6%
  6. 6DALIP SINGHIndependent · IND6,0761.4%
  7. 7KAMAL KUMAR DUBEYIndependent · IND4,1301.0%
  8. 8AZAD SINGHIndependent · IND3,3710.8%
  9. 9DHARAM PAL KAPAIIndependent · IND1,8220.4%
  10. 10DALIP SINGHIndependent · IND1,3220.3%

Since 1977

Derived
Winner then
BLD
Winner now
INCIflipped
INCI–JNP swing
+35.5%
INCI share
0.0% → 58.5%
JNP share
0.0% → 23.1%
Turnout
71.4% → 62.6%
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