Constituency
20. Ajnala
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 2002
PB-AJNALA
SAD 46.1%won by 0.3%IND 45.8%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.7% to 0.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 45.8% — it polled just 0.5% in 1997.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.9% between them, down from 99.3% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,02,298
Margin
356
0.35%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SAD- 1DR. RATTAN SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD47,18246.1%
- 2HARPARTAP SINGHIndependent · IND46,82645.8%
- 3RAVI RAJBIR SINGHIndian National Congress · INC5,9265.8%
- 4BALDEV SINGH SIRSASADM · SADM1,3971.4%
- 5GURMUKH SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9670.9%
Since 1997
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–IND swing
- −49.7%
- SAD share
- 50.5% → 46.1%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 45.8%
- Turnout
- — → —