Constituency
8. Dina Nagar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-DINA-NAGAR
BJP 64.0%won by 37.3%INC 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 37.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 25.0% to 64.0% of the vote here (+38.9%).
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
74,604
Margin
27,818
37.29%
Candidates
3 contested · winner BJP- 1ROOP RANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,72364.0%
- 2KRISHAN KUMARIndian National Congress · INC19,90526.7%
- 3DHARAM CHANDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,9769.4%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +75.1%
- BJP share
- 25.0% → 64.0%
- INC share
- 62.8% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- — → —