Constituency
42. Sultanpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-SULTANPUR
SAD 59.8%won by 27.6%INC 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 27.6%.
- SAD vote shareSAD went from 0.0% to 59.8% of the vote here (+59.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.0% of the vote between them, up from 77.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
79,347
Margin
21,926
27.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SAD- 1UPINDERJIT KAURShiromani Akali Dal · SAD47,45559.8%
- 2RAJANBIR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC25,52932.2%
- 3MASTER GURDEV SINGHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4,8176.1%
- 4BALWANT SINGHBSPA · BSPA1,1741.5%
- 5BALDEV SINGHIndependent · IND3720.5%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SADflipped
- SAD–INC swing
- +70.8%
- SAD share
- 0.0% → 59.8%
- INC share
- 43.2% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —