Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Amritsar #2GEN
Won
Daya Singh Sodhi
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
91,140 14.0 pp
votes
over Raghunandan Lal Bhatia (INC)
The contest
Electors11,98,245
Votes polled6,50,837
Turnout54.3%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.39 L53.3% of electorate
Female electors5.6 L46.7% of electorate
Sex ratio
876females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daya Singh Sodhi | BJP | 3,61,133 | 55.50% | |
| 2 | Raghunandan Lal Bhatia | INC | 2,69,993 | 41.50% | |
| 3 | Durga Dass | IND | 5,746 | 0.90% | |
| 4 | Amarjit Kaur Gopalpura | BSPA | 3,277 | 0.50% | |
| 5 | Kirpal Singh | RJD | 1,484 | 0.20% | |
| 6 | Beant Singh | IND | 1,188 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Parveen Kumar | IND | 725 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Ramesh Talbar | IND | 566 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,725, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 644,112 · NOTA n/a · published 650,837 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12