Constituency
44. Balachaur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-BALACHAUR
SAD 53.0%won by 25.6%BSP 27.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 25.6%.
- SAD vote shareSAD went from 0.0% to 53.0% of the vote here (+53.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 80.3% of the vote between them, up from 58.5% — 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
80,032
Margin
20,522
25.64%
Candidates
7 contested · winner SAD- 1NAND LALShiromani Akali Dal · SAD42,40353.0%
- 2HARGOPAL SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP21,88127.3%
- 3SURJIT BHATIAIndian National Congress · INC12,58515.7%
- 4MEHAR CHANDJanata Dal · JD1,4771.8%
- 5NAZAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,0651.3%
- 6RAM KISHANIndependent · IND4030.5%
- 7HARMESH RANGILABSPA · BSPA2180.3%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- SADflipped
- SAD–BSP swing
- +58.2%
- SAD share
- 0.0% → 53.0%
- BSP share
- 32.6% → 27.3%
- Turnout
- — → —