Constituency
3. Pathankot
Community mirrorPunjab · Punjab Assembly Election, 2012
PB-PATHANKOT
BJP 44.6%won by 18.8%INC 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.3% to 18.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.3% between them, down from 76.3% — 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
1,30,391
Turnout
72.7%
Valid votes
94,742
Margin
17,856
18.85%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1ASHWANI KUMAR SHARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP42,21844.6%
- 2RAMAN BHALLAIndian National Congress · INC24,36225.7%
- 3ASHOK SHARMAIndependent · IND23,71325.0%
- 4DR. JASPAL SINGH BHINDERPPOP · PPOP1,2941.4%
- 5SANSAR CHANDBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1291.2%
- 6MUNISHAIndependent · IND7120.8%
- 7AMIT AGGARWALShiv Sena · SHS6350.7%
- 8SHASHI BALAIndependent · IND2920.3%
- 9KARTAR SINGH KHALSAIndependent · IND2080.2%
- 10SUDESHNationalist Congress Party · NCP1790.2%
Since 2007
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2007 and 2012. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +10.6%
- BJP share
- 42.3% → 44.6%
- INC share
- 34.0% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → 72.7%