Constituency
344. Patiala
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-PATIALA
INC 46.1%won by 10.1%SAD 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.0% between them, down from 97.8% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,10,354
Turnout
59.7%
Valid votes
7,81,794
Margin
78,908
10.09%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1Preneet KaurIndian National Congress · INC3,60,12546.1%
- 2Surjit Singh RakhraShiromani Akali Dal · SAD2,81,21736.0%
- 3Prem Singh ChandumajraSHSAD · SHSAD89,26811.4%
- 4Surjit KaurIndependent · IND13,0891.7%
- 5Ranjit Singh ThekedarIndependent · IND9,9201.3%
- 6Amritbir Singh GulatiJanata Dal (United) · JDU8,0381.0%
- 7Swaran SinghNationalist Congress Party · NCP5,7600.7%
- 8Pritam Pal MidhaIndependent · IND4,5370.6%
- 9Varinder Singh FaganmajraBSPA · BSPA3,8150.5%
- 10Madan PalIndependent · IND3,7940.5%
- 11Dr. Krishan Kumar PrasharAJBP · AJBP2,2310.3%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- SAD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–SAD swing
- +14.2%
- INC share
- 46.8% → 46.1%
- SAD share
- 50.9% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 61.4% → 59.7%