Election
Constituency

41. Sonepat

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Haryana Assembly Election, 2000

HR-SONEPAT

IND 35.8%won by 4.1%BJP 31.7%

What changed here

Derived

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 41.8% to 4.1%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Samajwadi Party (SP) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
84,843
Margin
3,485
4.11%

Candidates

6 contested · winner IND
  1. 1DEV RAJ DEEWANIndependent · IND30,34135.8%
  2. 2DEVI DASSBharatiya Janata Party · BJP26,85631.7%
  3. 3RAJIV KUMARHVP · HVP16,80319.8%
  4. 4ASHOK KUMARIndian National Congress · INC8,1349.6%
  5. 5SHARDHA NAND SOLANKICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,8812.2%
  6. 6LALITNationalist Congress Party · NCP8281.0%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
IND
IND–BJP swing
−37.7%
IND share
53.2% → 35.8%
BJP share
11.4% → 31.7%
Turnout
— → —
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