Constituency
16. Amritsar North
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-AMRITSAR-NORTH
BJP 60.1%won by 28.2%INC 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 28.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 43.3% to 60.1% of the vote here (+16.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.0% between them, down from 98.8% — 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
59,340
Margin
16,732
28.20%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1BALDEV RAJ CHAWLABharatiya Janata Party · BJP35,66160.1%
- 2FAQIR CHAND SHARMAIndian National Congress · INC18,92931.9%
- 3RAVINDER KUMAR HANSBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,0693.5%
- 4INDERJIT KHURANA (LALI)Independent · IND1,0121.7%
- 5AMARJIT KAURJanata Dal · JD7401.2%
- 6JASWANT SARPALFBL · FBL3870.7%
- 7SHASHI PALIndependent · IND3580.6%
- 8KIRPAL SINGH (GUDDIANWALA)Independent · IND1840.3%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +40.3%
- BJP share
- 43.3% → 60.1%
- INC share
- 55.4% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- — → —