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Phillaur #5SC
Won
Harbhajan Lakha
BSP Bahujan Samaj PartyMargin
49,867 7.9 pp
votes
over Santosh Chaudhary (INC)
The contest
Electors10,54,420
Votes polled6,28,548
Turnout59.6%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.48 L51.9% of electorate
Female electors5.07 L48.1% of electorate
Sex ratio
926females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harbhajan Lakha | BSP | 2,95,868 | 47.10% | |
| 2 | Santosh Chaudhary | INC | 2,46,001 | 39.10% | |
| 3 | Master Bhagat Ram | CPIM | 50,843 | 8.10% | |
| 4 | Hari Singh | SADSS | 10,361 | 1.60% | |
| 5 | Tarsem | CPIML | 5,869 | 0.90% | |
| 6 | Vijay Kumar Hans | BSPA | 3,405 | 0.50% | |
| 7 | Kishan Dass Swamy | IND | 1,564 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Mohan Singh | IND | 1,502 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | Sukhdev Singh | IND | 886 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,249, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 616,299 · NOTA n/a · published 628,548 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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- 2026-09-13