Constituency
17. Amritsar West
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-AMRITSAR-WEST
IND 40.1%won by 13.0%BJP 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 13.0%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 0.0% to 40.1% of the vote here (+40.1%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.2% between them, down from 84.2% — 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
1,05,492
Margin
13,671
12.96%
Candidates
10 contested · winner IND- 1OM PARKASH SONIIndependent · IND42,30540.1%
- 2OM PARKASH KALIABharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,63427.1%
- 3JAI KARAN SINGH PATHAINACommunist Party of India · CPI26,44125.1%
- 4PARMOD KUMAR BABLAIndependent · IND3,3353.2%
- 5RAJIV KUMAR BAGATBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,3022.2%
- 6ASHWANI KUMARIndependent · IND1,4031.3%
- 7SWARAN SINGHBAMP · BAMP3350.3%
- 8DARSHAN SINGH AREWALAPJM · PJM2510.2%
- 9KARTAR KAUR SANDHUIndependent · IND2500.2%
- 10VIJAY KUMARIndependent · IND2360.2%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–BJP swing
- +26.4%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 40.1%
- BJP share
- 13.4% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- — → —