Constituency
116. Samana
Community mirrorPunjab · Punjab Assembly Election, 2017
PB-SAMANA
INC 41.9%won by 6.6%SAD 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.2% between them, down from 94.7% — 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
1,78,554
Turnout
83.6%
Valid votes
1,49,226
Margin
9,849
6.60%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1RAJINDER SINGHIndian National Congress · INC62,55141.9%
- 2SURJIT SINGH RAKHRAShiromani Akali Dal · SAD52,70235.3%
- 3JAGTAR SINGH RAJLAAam Aadmi Party · AAP28,88419.4%
- 4RAJINDER SINGHSADM · SADM1,8541.2%
- 5DAVINDER SINGH DHIMANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0840.7%
- 6None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,0520.7%
- 7AJAIB SINGH BATHOIIndependent · IND5010.3%
- 8RAJINDER SINGHIndependent · IND3480.2%
- 9JASPAL SINGHIndependent · IND2500.2%
Since 2012
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SAD swing
- +12.0%
- INC share
- 44.7% → 41.9%
- SAD share
- 50.0% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 84.8% → 83.6%