Constituency
98. Dharamkot
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 2002
PB-DHARAMKOT
SAD 41.0%won by 17.8%IND 23.2%
What changed here
DerivedShiromani Akali Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.1% to 17.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 23.2% — it polled just 0.5% in 1997.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.1% between them, down from 99.5% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
87,208
Margin
15,529
17.81%
Candidates
10 contested · winner SAD- 1SITAL SINGHShiromani Akali Dal · SAD35,72941.0%
- 2MUKHTIAR SINGHIndependent · IND20,20023.2%
- 3JAGDARSHAN KAURIndian National Congress · INC18,86521.6%
- 4KARAMJIT KAURLBP · LBP3,6494.2%
- 5LAL SINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,5394.1%
- 6BALDEV SINGHSADM · SADM2,1072.4%
- 7BALDEV KAURLJNSP · LJNSP1,6111.8%
- 8AMRIT KAURIndependent · IND7070.8%
- 9GURDEV SINGHNationalist Congress Party · NCP4620.5%
- 10SANTOKH SINGHMBSP · MBSP3390.4%
Since 1997
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- SAD
- SAD–IND swing
- −46.5%
- SAD share
- 64.8% → 41.0%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 23.2%
- Turnout
- — → —