Constituency
342. Hoshiarpur
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-HOSHIARPUR
BJP 51.5%won by 11.1%BSP 40.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 11.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 9.4% to 51.5% of the vote here (+42.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.9% of the vote between them, up from 77.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,80,594
Turnout
54.7%
Valid votes
5,90,841
Margin
65,332
11.06%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1KAMAL CHAUDHURYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,04,09151.5%
- 2CHARANDEEP SINGH KAMBOJBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,38,75940.4%
- 3RAGHUNATH SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM34,6575.9%
- 4LAWRANCEIndependent · IND4,5120.8%
- 5AMAR CHANDBSPA · BSPA3,3630.6%
- 6BALDEV SINGHIndependent · IND2,8620.5%
- 7MOOLA SINGHIndependent · IND2,5970.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BSP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BSP swing
- +41.1%
- BJP share
- 9.4% → 51.5%
- BSP share
- 39.5% → 40.4%
- Turnout
- 56.2% → 54.7%