Constituency
342. Hoshiarpur
Community mirrorPunjab · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-HOSHIARPUR
BJP 44.2%won by 15.9%CPM 28.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 15.9%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 38.3% to 44.2% of the vote here (+5.9%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 28.3% — it did not contest here in 1999.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.5% between them, down from 82.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.5% to 57.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,37,423
Turnout
57.6%
Valid votes
6,55,691
Margin
1,04,371
15.92%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1AVINASH RAI KHANNABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,89,81544.2%
- 2COMRADE DARSHAN SINGH MATTUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,85,44428.3%
- 3CHARANJIT SINGH CHANNIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,56,27023.8%
- 4AJEET SINGH PARMARSJPR · SJPR7,5111.1%
- 5KULDIP RAIIndependent · IND6,5651.0%
- 6SADHU SINGH SAINIIndependent · IND3,8830.6%
- 7HARMESH LAL AZADIndependent · IND3,4160.5%
- 8GURDEV SINGHBGTD · BGTD2,7870.4%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–CPM swing
- −22.3%
- BJP share
- 38.3% → 44.2%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 28.3%
- Turnout
- 52.1% → 57.6%