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89. Lehra

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Punjab Assembly Election, 1997

PB-LEHRA

INC 53.6%won by 11.1%SAD 42.5%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.3% to 11.1%.

  • Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.3% — a tighter two-way contest.

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
96,539
Margin
10,730
11.11%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1RAJINDER KAUR BHATTALIndian National Congress · INC51,76953.6%
  2. 2GARJA SINGH KHANDEBADShiromani Akali Dal · SAD41,03942.5%
  3. 3JAGROOP SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,6052.7%
  4. 4SEWA SINGHIndependent · IND7980.8%
  5. 5BALBIR SINGHBSPA · BSPA3280.3%

Since 1992

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–SAD swing
−38.1%
INC share
60.3% → 53.6%
SAD share
11.1% → 42.5%
Turnout
— → —
88. Sunam90. Balluana
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