Constituency
59. Ludhiana East
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-LUDHIANA-EAST
BJP 58.9%won by 26.4%INC 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.1% to 26.4%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.3% of the vote between them, up from 85.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party 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
61,728
Margin
16,311
26.42%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1SAT PAL GOSAINBharatiya Janata Party · BJP36,33858.9%
- 2OM PARKASH GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC20,02732.4%
- 3PRITPAL SINGH GHAYALIndependent · IND3,1705.1%
- 4SUBASH CHAND BERRYJanata Dal · JD1,1151.8%
- 5DEV RAJ MALRASamajwadi Party · SP4640.8%
- 6BALDEV RAJNCY · NCY2830.5%
- 7VARINDER KAPOORIndependent · IND2370.4%
- 8AVTAR SINGHIndependent · IND690.1%
- 9SUBHASH CHANDERIndependent · IND250.0%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +15.4%
- BJP share
- 48.2% → 58.9%
- INC share
- 37.1% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —