Constituency
47. Hoshiarpur
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 2002
PB-HOSHIARPUR
BJP 32.5%won by 0.4%INC 32.1%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.7% to 0.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.6% between them, down from 71.1% — the field split more ways.
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
74,219
Margin
308
0.41%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJP- 1TIKSHAN SUDBharatiya Janata Party · BJP24,14132.5%
- 2NARESH THAKURIndian National Congress · INC23,83332.1%
- 3SUNDER SHAM ARORAIndependent · IND11,59815.6%
- 4JASWINDER SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,4987.4%
- 5VARINDER SINGHSADM · SADM2,9634.0%
- 6SUNIL DUTT WALIAJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS2,0532.8%
- 7DARSHAN SINGH SIDHULBP · LBP8901.2%
- 8NARINDER SINGH SAINILJNSP · LJNSP8841.2%
- 9SADHU SINGHIndependent · IND6580.9%
- 10VIKRAM KUMAR (VIKA)Independent · IND6460.9%
- 11KRISHAN KANTIndependent · IND5120.7%
- 12VINOD PARMARNationalist Congress Party · NCP3570.5%
- 13GAIN SINGH SANDHUPRBP · PRBP1860.3%
Since 1997
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −29.4%
- BJP share
- 49.4% → 32.5%
- INC share
- 19.6% → 32.1%
- Turnout
- — → —