Constituency
6. Dhariwal
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-DHARIWAL
SAD 47.1%won by 5.3%SADM 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 5.3%.
- SAD vote shareSAD went from 9.9% to 47.1% of the vote here (+37.2%).
- New challengerSADM (SADM) finished second with 41.8% — it did not contest here in 1992.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.9% of the vote between them, up from 75.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
83,895
Margin
4,479
5.34%
Candidates
7 contested · winner SAD- 1SUCHA SINGH LANGAHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD39,54947.1%
- 2SUCHA SINGH CHHOTEPURSADM · SADM35,07041.8%
- 3SUSHEEL MAHAJANIndian National Congress · INC4,7365.6%
- 4JAGJIT SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,8572.2%
- 5GURMEET SINGHIndependent · IND1,4141.7%
- 6JASBIR SINGHIndependent · IND1,1511.4%
- 7RAJ KUMARIndependent · IND1180.1%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SADflipped
- SAD–SADM swing
- −4.6%
- SAD share
- 9.9% → 47.1%
- SADM share
- 0.0% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- — → —