Constituency
65. Nangal
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-NANGAL
BJP 40.3%won by 12.5%CPM 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.5% to 12.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.1% of the vote between them, up from 62.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered5 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
74,121
Margin
9,271
12.51%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1MADAN MOHAN MITTALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP29,86740.3%
- 2MOHINDER PAULCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,59627.8%
- 3BHUPESHIndian National Congress · INC10,39514.0%
- 4RAM LALIndependent · IND6,1278.3%
- 5PIARE LALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,7875.1%
- 6SUBHASH CHANDERIndependent · IND1,7082.3%
- 7RANJIT SINGHIndependent · IND1,6412.2%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–CPM swing
- +8.0%
- BJP share
- 33.4% → 40.3%
- CPM share
- 28.8% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- — → —