Constituency
11. Sujanpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-SUJANPUR
BJP 43.6%won by 11.9%INC 31.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 11.9%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 31.5% to 43.6% of the vote here (+12.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.2% of the vote between them, up from 67.8% — 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
84,435
Margin
10,034
11.88%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1SATPAL SAINIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP36,77543.6%
- 2RAGHUNATH SAHAI PURIIndian National Congress · INC26,74131.7%
- 3NATHA SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM14,65717.4%
- 4PIARA RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,3646.4%
- 5RANDHIR SINGHIndependent · IND8981.1%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +16.7%
- BJP share
- 31.5% → 43.6%
- INC share
- 36.3% → 31.7%
- Turnout
- — → —