Constituency
18. Amritsar Central
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-AMRITSAR-CENTRAL
BJP 53.9%won by 29.0%INC 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.0% to 29.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.7% between them, down from 98.4% — the field split more ways.
- 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
50,244
Margin
14,583
29.02%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1LAXMI KANTA CHAWLABharatiya Janata Party · BJP27,07053.9%
- 2DARBARI LALIndian National Congress · INC12,48724.9%
- 3ARUN KUMAR PAPPALIndependent · IND7,73115.4%
- 4HARISH KUMAR TANEJAIndependent · IND2,0774.1%
- 5PARMOD GILLIndependent · IND3790.8%
- 6JASMINE ASGHARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2650.5%
- 7RAMAN KUMAR DUAJanata Dal · JD1430.3%
- 8SATISH KUMAR BABLAShiv Sena · SHS570.1%
- 9KULJIT SINGHIndependent · IND260.1%
- 10RAJNEESH KUMARIndependent · IND90.0%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +19.1%
- BJP share
- 54.2% → 53.9%
- INC share
- 44.2% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → —