Election
Constituency

46. Mahilpur

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Punjab Assembly Election, 1997

PB-MAHILPUR

SAD 44.5%won by 13.2%BSP 31.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 13.2%.

  • SAD vote shareSAD went from 11.5% to 44.5% of the vote here (+33.0%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
66,023
Margin
8,733
13.23%

Candidates

5 contested · winner SAD
  1. 1SOHAN SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD29,40044.5%
  2. 2AVTAR SINGH KARIMPURIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP20,66731.3%
  3. 3GURMAIL SINGHIndian National Congress · INC13,44820.4%
  4. 4DARSHAN SINGHIndependent · IND2,1983.3%
  5. 5CHANAN RAMJanata Dal · JD3100.5%

Since 1992

Derived
Winner then
BSP
Winner now
SADflipped
SAD–BSP swing
+52.8%
SAD share
11.5% → 44.5%
BSP share
51.1% → 31.3%
Turnout
— → —
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