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Karnal #3SC
Won
Ishwar Dayal Swami
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
1,91,865 23.1 pp
votes
over Chiranji Lal Sharma (INC)
The contest
Electors11,49,141
Votes polled8,29,916
Turnout72.2%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.23 L54.2% of electorate
Female electors5.26 L45.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
845females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ishwar Dayal Swami | BJP | 3,38,013 | 40.70% | |
| 2 | Chiranji Lal Sharma | INC | 1,46,148 | 17.60% | |
| 3 | Shyam Singh Rana | SP | 1,26,604 | 15.30% | |
| 4 | Raghuveer Singh | BSP | 55,484 | 6.70% | |
| 5 | Chasham Pal Nain | JD | 45,797 | 5.50% | |
| 6 | Shamsher Singh Gogi | AIICT | 27,932 | 3.40% | |
| 7 | Daryao Singh Malik | IND | 13,465 | 1.60% | |
| 8 | Mai Lal | IND | 6,797 | 0.80% | |
| 9 | Amarjit Singh Rana | IND | 6,537 | 0.80% | |
| 10 | Madan Gopal Gupta | IND | 5,936 | 0.70% | |
| 11 | Raj Kumar Kashyap | IND | 4,775 | 0.60% | |
| 12 | Chhakan Lal Khurana | IND | 4,684 | 0.60% | |
| 13 | Harkesh Sharma | SS | 4,395 | 0.50% | |
| 14 | Mahabir Singh Panwar | ICS | 2,268 | 0.30% | |
| 15 | Gurdial Singh | IND | 1,931 | 0.20% | |
| 16 | Sunehra | IND | 1,660 | 0.20% | |
| 17 | Randhir Singh Saini | IND | 1,582 | 0.20% | |
| 18 | Santosh | AIFB | 1,548 | 0.20% | |
| 19 | Ved Parkash | IND | 1,490 | 0.20% | |
| 20 | Jogi Ram | IND | 1,335 | 0.20% | |
| 21 | Raj Kumar | IND | 1,276 | 0.20% | |
| 22 | Ram Phal | IND | 1,250 | 0.20% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 29,009, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 800,907 · NOTA n/a · published 829,916 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-13