Constituency
19. Amritsar South
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-AMRITSAR-SOUTH
SAD 40.6%won by 19.0%INC 21.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 19.0%.
- SAD vote shareSAD went from 0.0% to 40.6% of the vote here (+40.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.3% between them, down from 99.6% — 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
76,468
Margin
14,495
18.96%
Candidates
9 contested · winner SAD- 1MANJIT SINGH CALCUTTAShiromani Akali Dal · SAD31,06040.6%
- 2HARJINDER SINGH THEKEDARIndian National Congress · INC16,56521.7%
- 3KIRPAL SINGHPJM · PJM9,76512.8%
- 4MADAN LAL ANEJAIndependent · IND8,25810.8%
- 5ANUP SINGH VIRDIIndependent · IND7,5919.9%
- 6JASPAL SINGHJanata Dal · JD2,8673.7%
- 7BALWINDER SINGHFBL · FBL2320.3%
- 8HARJINDER SINGHIndependent · IND800.1%
- 9GURBACHAN SINGHIndependent · IND500.1%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SADflipped
- SAD–INC swing
- +90.9%
- SAD share
- 0.0% → 40.6%
- INC share
- 72.0% → 21.7%
- Turnout
- — → —