Constituency
342. Hoshiarpur
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-HOSHIARPUR
BSP 39.5%won by 1.9%INC 37.6%
What the numbers say
Derived4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,36,111
Turnout
56.2%
Valid votes
5,82,263
Margin
10,944
1.88%
Candidates
20 contested · winner BSP- 1KANSHI RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,30,01139.5%
- 2KAMAL CHOUDHARYIndian National Congress · INC2,19,06737.6%
- 3VIKRAM SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP54,8589.4%
- 4HAR KANWAL SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM29,3815.0%
- 5RAM KISHAN KATARIAIndependent · IND18,7303.2%
- 6SARABJIT SINGHSADM · SADM13,2742.3%
- 7SHIV DUTT BALIAIICT · AIICT3,6360.6%
- 8HARI SINGHIndependent · IND1,9170.3%
- 9MOOLA SINGHIndependent · IND1,8380.3%
- 10RAM LALIndependent · IND1,8090.3%
- 11AMARJIT SINGH MANNBSPA · BSPA1,2530.2%
- 12GIAN CHAND VERMAShiv Sena · SHS1,2040.2%
- 13RAJ KUMARIndependent · IND1,0490.2%
- 14GIAN CHAND PANIALAIndependent · IND9890.2%
- 15LASHKAR SINGHIndependent · IND9000.2%
- 16MEHNGA RAMIndependent · IND7520.1%
- 17WARIYAM SINGHIndependent · IND6520.1%
- 18BHAGWAN SINGHIndependent · IND3730.1%
- 19DHANI RAMIndependent · IND3380.1%
- 20PURAN SINGHIndependent · IND2320.0%