Constituency
33. Kartarpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-KARTARPUR
INC 35.8%won by 0.3%IND 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.5% to 0.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 28.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.4% between them, down from 95.5% — 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
82,556
Margin
276
0.33%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1JAGJIT SINGHIndian National Congress · INC29,59635.8%
- 2RAM LAL JASSIIndependent · IND29,32035.5%
- 3AVINASH CHANDERBahujan Samaj Party · BSP19,98524.2%
- 4MASTER BALDEV SINGHBSPA · BSPA2,9643.6%
- 5SWARAN SINGHIndependent · IND6910.8%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −59.5%
- INC share
- 64.0% → 35.8%
- IND share
- 4.2% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- — → —