Constituency
54. Raikot
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-RAIKOT
INC 42.7%won by 4.5%SAD 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.0% to 4.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 17.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
89,782
Margin
4,052
4.51%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1HARMOHINDER SINGH PARDHANIndian National Congress · INC38,29742.7%
- 2RANJIT SINGH TALWANDIShiromani Akali Dal · SAD34,24538.1%
- 3PARAMJIT SINGH RANUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,0067.8%
- 4NIRMAL SINGHIndependent · IND4,1984.7%
- 5RACHHPAL SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,4212.7%
- 6RAJWINDER SINGHIndependent · IND2,4142.7%
- 7HARDEV SINGH SANDHUIndependent · IND9571.1%
- 8TALIB SINGHSADM · SADM2440.3%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SAD swing
- −16.5%
- INC share
- 60.5% → 42.7%
- SAD share
- 39.5% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- — → —