Punjab

The numbers

Turnout

62.25%

+4.3 pts vs India

Electors

1.45crore

in 13 constituencies

Women MPs

1

of 17 women candidates

Candidates

259

17 women · NOTA 0.0%

Who won the 13 seats

one tile per constituency, grouped by party

SAD 8 BSP 3 INC 2

Votes vs seats

pale = share of votes · solid = share of seats

Share of votesShare of seats

SAD29% → 62%

BSP9% → 23%

INC35% → 15%

Independent8% → 0%

BJP6% → 0%

SAD(M)4% → 0%

CPI(M)3% → 0%

Vote share

bars: % of valid votes · right: seats

SAD28.7%8seats BSP9.3%3seats INC35.1%2seats Independent7.5%0seats BJP6.5%0seats SAD(M)3.9%0seats CPI(M)2.7%0seats JD2.7%0seats

Notable contests

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Closest

10,944 votes

Hoshiarpur
BSP over INC

Biggest win

92,229

Bhatinda
Harinder Singh Khalsa(Norway) (SAD)

Highest turnout

72.0%

Faridkot
7,99,077 votes

Lowest turnout

57.3%

Hoshiarpur
5,93,425 votes

Constituencies

13 · tap one for the full result

Sukhbuns Kaur · INC2,37,49935.2%Jagdish Sawhney · BJP1,62,95224.2%Third · SAD1,40,81220.9%

Turnout 65.5%Electors 10,50,121Candidates 14NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Raghnandan Lal Bhatia · INC2,68,49041.0%Kirpal Singh · JD2,34,81835.9%Third · BJP83,98112.8%

Turnout 58.8%Electors 11,34,857Candidates 20NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Major Singh Uboke · SAD2,70,49943.2%Surinder Singh Kairon · INC2,36,64737.8%Third · Independent48,1017.7%

Turnout 64.0%Electors 10,01,343Candidates 16NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Darbara Singh · SAD2,76,89745.0%Umrao Singh · INC2,58,34242.0%Third · BJP44,2877.2%

Turnout 58.5%Electors 10,71,422Candidates 22NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Harbhajan Lakha · BSP2,95,86848.0%Santosh Chaudhary · INC2,46,00139.9%Third · CPI(M)50,8438.3%

Turnout 59.6%Electors 10,54,420Candidates 9NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Kanshi Ram · BSP2,30,01139.5%Kamal Choudhary · INC2,19,06737.6%Third · BJP54,8589.4%

Turnout 57.3%Electors 10,36,111Candidates 20NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Basant Singh · SAD3,27,95848.5%Shamsher Singh · INC2,56,86738.0%Third · SAD(M)75,70211.2%

Turnout 58.8%Electors 11,72,773Candidates 9NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Prem Singh Chandumajra · SAD3,16,55446.5%Sant Ram · INC2,67,48839.3%Third · CPI36,0275.3%

Turnout 58.9%Electors 11,83,865Candidates 24NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Amrik Singh Aliwal · SAD3,56,15745.6%Jaswant Kaur · INC2,84,90736.5%Third · BJP93,68312.0%

Turnout 60.1%Electors 13,37,591Candidates 36NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Surjeet Singh Barnala · SAD2,38,13132.1%Simaranjeet Singh Mann · SAD(M)1,62,47921.9%Third · CPI(M)1,56,77021.1%

Turnout 71.6%Electors 10,58,782Candidates 27NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Harinder Singh Khalsa(Norway) · SAD3,02,30244.7%Sarvjot Singh · INC2,10,07331.1%Third · CPI77,94611.5%

Turnout 61.2%Electors 11,31,612Candidates 23NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Sukhbir Singh Badal · SAD3,05,66939.0%Kanwaljeet Kaur · INC2,67,81134.2%Third · Independent1,93,44124.7%

Turnout 72.0%Electors 11,09,708Candidates 17NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Mohan Singh · BSP2,64,79936.8%Sunil Kumar · INC2,04,88728.5%Third · BJP1,32,15918.4%

Turnout 64.0%Electors 11,47,220Candidates 22NOTA 0 (0.0%)

Punjab in every Lok Sabha election

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Punjab assembly elections

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About this data

Source: Election Commission of India, statistical reports for the 1996 Lok Sabha election (detailed results, list of winners, list of parties). Vote shares are of valid votes, excluding NOTA, as ECI reports them. Turnout here is votes counted (including NOTA) divided by electors, so it runs slightly below ECI's official figure, which also counts rejected votes.

Constituencies of today's Telangana (16), Jharkhand (14), Chhattisgarh (11), Uttarakhand (5) are placed there by name; at the time they were part of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and a few boundaries straddled the present state lines.

Map boundaries are approximate and for illustration.