Amritsar #2GEN

PUNJAB · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Raghnandan Lal Bhatia

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

33,672 5.0 pp

votes

over Kirpal Singh (JD)

The contest

20 candidate rows

Electors11,34,857

Votes polled6,67,780

Turnout58.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.05 L53.3% of electorate

Female electors5.3 L46.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 877females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

20 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Raghnandan Lal Bhatia	INC	2,68,490	40.20%
2	Kirpal Singh	JD	2,34,818	35.20%
3	Baldev Raj Chawla	BJP	83,981	12.60%
4	Daljit Singh Sandhu	SADSS	19,980	3.00%
5	Kewal Krishan	AIICT	12,430	1.90%
6	Rehmat Masih	IND	11,669	1.70%
7	Shanker Singh	BSPA	5,271	0.80%
8	Parkash Singh Gill	IND	3,027	0.50%
9	Raman Kumar	SS	1,991	0.30%
10	Balkar Singh	IND	1,834	0.30%
11	Jagdish	IND	1,686	0.30%
12	Baldev Raj	IND	1,502	0.20%
13	Satnam Singh	IND	1,425	0.20%
14	O. P. Singh	IND	1,293	0.20%
15	Ajaib Singh	IND	1,268	0.20%
16	Mahinder Singh	IND	1,230	0.20%
17	Sushil Rai	IND	885	0.10%
18	Balwant Rai	AIFB	776	0.10%
19	Jai Gopal	IND	580	0.10%
20	Ram Saran	IND	303	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,341, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 654,439 · NOTA n/a · published 667,780 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996