Constituency
42. Sultanpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1992
PB-SULTANPUR
INC 43.2%won by 9.3%IND 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 46.9% to 43.2% of the vote here (−3.7%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 33.9% — it polled just 0.5% in 1985.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.1% between them, down from 98.4% — 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
37,911
Margin
3,529
9.31%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1GURMAIL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC16,38243.2%
- 2SADHU SINGHIndependent · IND12,85333.9%
- 3GURDEV SINGHIndependent · IND4,81512.7%
- 4BALWANT SINGHIndependent · IND2,2806.0%
- 5TARSEM SINGHIndependent · IND9932.6%
- 6SURJIT SINGHJanata Dal · JD5881.6%
Since 1985
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- −37.1%
- INC share
- 46.9% → 43.2%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —