Constituency
337. Gurdaspur
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-GURDASPUR
BJP 56.6%won by 15.2%INC 41.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 15.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 24.2% to 56.6% of the vote here (+32.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.0% of the vote between them, up from 59.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,91,312
Turnout
64.6%
Valid votes
7,04,568
Margin
1,06,833
15.16%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1VINOD KHANNABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,98,52756.6%
- 2SUKHBUNS KAURIndian National Congress · INC2,91,69441.4%
- 3ROSHAN LALIndependent · IND4,1680.6%
- 4JAGDISH CHANDERIndependent · IND3,5540.5%
- 5FAUJA SINGHIndependent · IND1,7360.2%
- 6N.K. MANNBKKP · BKKP1,6060.2%
- 7ELIZBETHIndependent · IND1,1500.2%
- 8BISHAMBER DASSIndependent · IND1,0940.2%
- 9TILAK RAJIndependent · IND1,0390.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +26.2%
- BJP share
- 24.2% → 56.6%
- INC share
- 35.2% → 41.4%
- Turnout
- 64.2% → 64.6%