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Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 1997

Amritsar West

Assembly constituency 17 (GEN) · Punjab

State boardPunjab 1997

[01]Result · 1997

#17 · GEN
Poll dateNot recordedNo poll date in the source
Contestants10
Electors1,83,163
Votes polled1,07,564
Turnout58.7%
NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013
WinnerOm Parkash SoniIndependent42,30540.1% of votes
MARGIN13,671 votes · 12.7 pp42,305 − 28,634
Runner-upOm Parkash Kalia Bharatiya Janata Party28,63427.1% of votes
IND 59.6% of top-two votesBJP 40.4%

All candidates 10

  1. 01 Om Parkash SoniIND42,305 40.1%
  2. 02 Om Parkash KaliaBJP28,634 27.1%
  3. 03 Jai Karan Singh PathainaCPI26,441 25.1%
  4. 04 Parmod Kumar BablaIND3,335 3.2%
  5. 05 Rajiv Kumar BagatBSP2,302 2.2%
  6. 06 Ashwani KumarIND1,403 1.3%
  7. 07 Swaran SinghBAP335 0.3%
  8. 08 Darshan Singh ArewalaPJM251 0.2%
  9. 09 Kartar Kaur SandhuIND250 0.2%
  10. 10 Vijay KumarIND236 0.2%

Turnout 58.7%

025507510058.7%TURNOUT◦ state median 70.2%
Male 97,89853.4% Female 85,26546.6%

Share of 1,83,163 electors

  • Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 males871
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • State median turnoutmedian of 117 seats, 199770.2%
  • ReconciliationΣ 10 candidates = 1,05,492Residual 2,072

Seat history 2022–1962

  1. 2022
    16.1 pp
    Ajay GuptaAam Aadmi Party
  2. 2017
    23.5 pp
    Om Parkash SoniIndian National Congress
  3. 2012
    14.9 pp
    Om Parkash SoniIndian National Congress
  4. 2007
    9.3 pp
    Om Parkash SoniIndian National Congress
  5. 2002
    22.9 pp
    Om Parkash SoniIndependent
  6. 1997
    12.7 pp
    Om Parkash SoniIndependent
  7. 1992
    13.1 pp
    Vimla DangCommunist Party of India
  8. 1985
    1.7 pp
    Sewa RamIndian National Congress
  9. 1980
    6.2 pp
    Sewa RamIndian National Congress
  10. 1977
    35.0 pp
    Satya Pal DangCommunist Party of India
  11. 1972
    34.5 pp
    Surinder SinghIndian National Congress
  12. 1969
    19.1 pp
    Surinder SinghShiromani Akali Dal
  13. 1967
    26.5 pp
    R. KaurIndian National Congress
  14. 1962
    34.8 pp
    Ram ParkashIndian National Congress

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 35.0 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. Third-placed CPI polled 26,441 votes, 1.9× the 13,671-vote margin.

    26,441 ÷ 13,671 = 1.9

  2. The top two polled 66.0% of votes; the other 8 candidates 32.1% between them.

    (42,305 + 28,634) ÷ 1,07,564 = 66.0% · 34,553 ÷ 1,07,564 = 32.1%

  3. Turnout of 58.7% was 11.5 pp below the state's median seat (70.2%).

    58.7 − 70.2 = −11.5

  4. The margin narrowed from 13.1 pp in 1992 to 12.7 pp.

    12.7 − 13.1 = −0.4 pp

  5. The seat changed hands: CPI in 1992, IND in 1997.

    1992 CPI · 1997 IND

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed
  • Candidate votesΣ 10 candidate lines1,05,492
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • Published totalVotes polled1,07,564
  • Checkneither convention holdsResidual 2,072

Candidate votes miss the published total by 2,072, with NOTA counted inside or outside it.

Contest resultElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha 1997 · Punjab · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates10 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Reconciliation failed

State median turnoutComputed from 117 seats on the Punjab Vidhan Sabha 1997 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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