Constituency
85. Dhanaula
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 2002
PB-DHANAULA
SAD 33.2%won by 9.1%INC 24.1%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.4% to 9.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.4% between them, down from 70.4% — 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
93,278
Margin
8,493
9.11%
Candidates
7 contested · winner SAD- 1GOBIND SINGH LONGOWALShiromani Akali Dal · SAD31,00733.2%
- 2JAGJIT SINGHIndian National Congress · INC22,51424.1%
- 3MADANJIT SINGHIndependent · IND13,20914.2%
- 4SANT TEK SINGHSADM · SADM11,04311.8%
- 5BHARPUR SINGHIndependent · IND8,9029.5%
- 6GURINDER PAL SINGH DHANAULABahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,9715.3%
- 7GURDEV SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,6321.7%
Since 1997
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–INC swing
- +5.7%
- SAD share
- 36.9% → 33.2%
- INC share
- 33.5% → 24.1%
- Turnout
- — → —