Constituency
138. Ambala
Community mirrorHaryana · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-AMBALA
INC 46.2%won by 4.0%BJP 42.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.3% to 4.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.5% of the vote between them, up from 81.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.9% to 63.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,99,299
Turnout
63.5%
Valid votes
5,71,129
Margin
22,649
3.97%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1RAM PARKASHIndian National Congress · INC2,64,07446.2%
- 2SURAJ BHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,41,42542.3%
- 3AMAN KUMARBahujan Samaj Party · BSP45,3897.9%
- 4NAR SINGH S/O NETA RAMIndependent · IND7,0361.2%
- 5NAR SINGH S/O KALDORIDDP · DDP5,0560.9%
- 6MUKH RAMIndependent · IND2,2800.4%
- 7SUMER CHAND YATRILkd (B) · LKDB2,0880.4%
- 8KARTAR CHANDIndependent · IND2,0140.4%
- 9NATHI RAMIndependent · IND1,7670.3%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −33.3%
- INC share
- 59.5% → 46.2%
- BJP share
- 22.2% → 42.3%
- Turnout
- 68.4% → 63.5%