Constituency
342. Hoshiarpur
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-HOSHIARPUR
INC 44.2%won by 5.9%BJP 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 44.2% of the vote here (+44.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.4% between them, down from 91.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.5% to 52.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,12,971
Turnout
52.1%
Valid votes
5,80,260
Margin
34,206
5.89%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1Charanjit Singh ChanniIndian National Congress · INC2,56,21144.2%
- 2Kamal ChaudhryBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,22,00538.3%
- 3Rakesh Ram GujjarBahujan Samaj Party · BSP88,99915.3%
- 4Gian Singh SandhuRPI · RPI4,3900.8%
- 5Amar ChandBSPA · BSPA4,0140.7%
- 6Dr. Dhani RamJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,6050.3%
- 7LawrenceIndependent · IND1,5080.3%
- 8V.P. SainiIndependent · IND9420.2%
- 9Sadhu Singh SainiIndependent · IND5860.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +57.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 44.2%
- BJP share
- 51.5% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- 54.7% → 52.1%