Constituency
19. Ambala City
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1962
PB-AMBALA-CITY
INC 42.5%won by 9.8%JS 32.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.0% to 9.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 12.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerJS (JS) finished second with 32.7% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.3% between them, down from 93.1% — the field split more ways.
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
46,452
Margin
4,540
9.77%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUL GHAFFAR KHANIndian National Congress · INC19,75042.5%
- 2RAGHBIR SHARANJS · JS15,21032.7%
- 3KARTAR SINGHApna Dal (Kamerawadi) · AD9,82021.1%
- 4ROSHAN LALIndependent · IND1,0222.2%
- 5OM PARKASHIndependent · IND6501.4%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JS swing
- −45.2%
- INC share
- 55.0% → 42.5%
- JS share
- 0.0% → 32.7%
- Turnout
- — → —