Constituency
18. Amritsar Central
Community mirrorPunjab Assembly Election, 2007
PB-AMRITSAR-CENTRAL
BJP 41.2%won by 8.1%INC 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.3% between them, down from 96.0% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
45,788
Margin
3,695
8.07%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1LAKSHMI KANTA CHAWLABharatiya Janata Party · BJP18,86641.2%
- 2DARBARI LALIndian National Congress · INC15,17133.1%
- 3ARUN KUMAR PAPPALIndependent · IND10,21722.3%
- 4SURINDER ARJUN PANDITBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4721.0%
- 5GOPI CHANDIndependent · IND3050.7%
- 6VIVEK SHARMAIndependent · IND2550.6%
- 7AJAYIndependent · IND1620.4%
- 8JASBIR KAURAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB1360.3%
- 9RAJINDER KHANNAIndependent · IND1030.2%
- 10RAJAN SEHGALIndependent · IND1010.2%
Since 2002
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +22.0%
- BJP share
- 41.0% → 41.2%
- INC share
- 55.0% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —