Constituency
71. Rajpura
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-RAJPURA
BJP 42.0%won by 1.2%INC 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 1.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 16.4% to 42.0% of the vote here (+25.6%).
- 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
91,760
Margin
1,091
1.19%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1BALRAM JI DASSBharatiya Janata Party · BJP38,54342.0%
- 2RAJ KHURANAIndian National Congress · INC37,45240.8%
- 3SUKHDEV SINGHSADM · SADM11,08612.1%
- 4INDERJIT SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,4894.9%
- 5RAMESH KUMARSJPR · SJPR1900.2%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +47.3%
- BJP share
- 16.4% → 42.0%
- INC share
- 62.5% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —