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Constituency

61. Payal

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Punjab Assembly Election, 1997

PB-PAYAL

SAD 49.4%won by 8.5%CPI 40.9%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 8.5%.

  • SAD vote shareSAD went from 0.0% to 49.4% of the vote here (+49.4%).
  • 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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not in source
Valid votes
85,933
Margin
7,274
8.46%

Candidates

3 contested · winner SAD
  1. 1SADHU SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD42,45949.4%
  2. 2KARTAR SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI35,18540.9%
  3. 3PIRTPAL SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,2899.6%

Since 1992

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
SADflipped
SAD–CPI swing
+48.1%
SAD share
0.0% → 49.4%
CPI share
39.7% → 40.9%
Turnout
— → —
60. Ludhiana Rural62. Kum Kalan
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