Constituency
48. Sham Chaurasi
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-SHAM-CHAURASI
SAD 44.5%won by 18.4%BSP 26.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 18.4%.
- SAD vote shareSAD went from 4.2% to 44.5% of the vote here (+40.3%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.7% between them, down from 88.8% — 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
73,539
Margin
13,495
18.35%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SAD- 1ARJAN SINGH JOSHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD32,73844.5%
- 2GURPAL CHANDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP19,24326.2%
- 3RAM RATTANIndian National Congress · INC17,89224.3%
- 4DHARAM PALIndependent · IND2,4383.3%
- 5KUNDAN LALIndependent · IND1,2281.7%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- SADflipped
- SAD–BSP swing
- +65.8%
- SAD share
- 4.2% → 44.5%
- BSP share
- 51.7% → 26.2%
- Turnout
- — → —