Constituency
95. Firozepur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-FIROZEPUR
BJP 53.4%won by 28.3%BSP 25.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 28.3%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 19.7% to 53.4% of the vote here (+33.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.5% of the vote between them, up from 53.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
84,326
Margin
23,869
28.31%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1GIRDHARA SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP45,02053.4%
- 2MUKHTIAR SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP21,15125.1%
- 3SHAVINDER KAURIndian National Congress · INC14,54617.2%
- 4FAUJA SINGHIndependent · IND2,0672.5%
- 5ARUN KUMARAIRKC · AIRKC1,5421.8%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BSP swing
- +35.0%
- BJP share
- 19.7% → 53.4%
- BSP share
- 26.4% → 25.1%
- Turnout
- — → —