Constituency
50. Garhdiwala
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-GARHDIWALA
SAD 51.3%won by 25.8%INC 25.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 25.8%.
- SAD vote shareSAD went from 4.9% to 51.3% of the vote here (+46.4%).
- Safe seatShiromani Akali Dal won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
71,849
Margin
18,516
25.77%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SAD- 1SOHAN SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD36,82651.3%
- 2DHARAMPAL SABHARWALIndian National Congress · INC18,31025.5%
- 3N.S.SAHOTABahujan Samaj Party · BSP15,48021.5%
- 4JAIPALIndependent · IND1,2331.7%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SADflipped
- SAD–INC swing
- +65.0%
- SAD share
- 4.9% → 51.3%
- INC share
- 44.1% → 25.5%
- Turnout
- — → —