Constituency
105. Muktsar
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 1997
PB-MUKTSAR
SAD 56.7%won by 13.9%IND 42.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which now leads by 13.9%.
- SAD vote shareSAD went from 31.4% to 56.7% of the vote here (+25.2%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 42.8% — it did not contest here in 1992.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.4% of the vote between them, up from 75.5% — 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
92,076
Margin
12,768
13.87%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SAD- 1HARNIRPAL SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD52,16656.7%
- 2AVTAR SINGHIndependent · IND39,39842.8%
- 3JASWANT SINGHIndependent · IND3010.3%
- 4TANWANT SINGHIndependent · IND1120.1%
- 5RAM KUMARIndependent · IND990.1%
Since 1992
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- SADflipped
- SAD–IND swing
- −17.5%
- SAD share
- 31.4% → 56.7%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 42.8%
- Turnout
- — → —