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17. Amritsar West

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Punjab Assembly Election, 2002

PB-AMRITSAR-WEST

IND 44.1%won by 22.9%CPI 21.2%

What changed here

Derived

Independent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.0% to 22.9%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Communist Party of India (CPI).
  • Multi-cornered4 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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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,02,808
Margin
23,540
22.90%

Candidates

8 contested · winner IND
  1. 1OM PARKASH SONIIndependent · IND45,33144.1%
  2. 2AMARJIT SINGHCommunist Party of India · CPI21,79121.2%
  3. 3CAPTAIN RAJINDER KUMARNationalist Congress Party · NCP21,34020.8%
  4. 4OM PARKASHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,52710.2%
  5. 5SOHAN LALSADM · SADM1,2271.2%
  6. 6JATINDER PAL SINGHIndependent · IND1,2081.2%
  7. 7VIMALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7950.8%
  8. 8COL. J.S. BAL (RETD.)RRD · RRD5890.6%

Since 1997

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
IND
IND–CPI swing
+7.9%
IND share
40.1% → 44.1%
CPI share
25.1% → 21.2%
Turnout
— → —
16. Amritsar North18. Amritsar Central
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