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Punjab · Assembly Constituency 48Reserved (SC)

Sham ChaurasiAssembly by-election result, 1998

Mohinder Kaur (SAD) won Sham Chaurasi in the 1998 assembly by-election with 50.4% of the vote, beating Santosh Chowdhry (INC) by 9,362 votes.

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Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1972, seat no. 48 was Sultanpur. Seat boundaries were redrawn after 2007. From 2012, seat no. 48 is Balachaur. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.

Winner

Mohinder Kaur
SAD
SAD 50.4%INC 35.5%2 others 14.1%
Votes
31,758
50.4% share
Winning margin
9,362
14.8% of votes
Candidates
4

A clear win with a 14.8% margin.

Seat history

All Candidates

4 candidates
#CandidatePartyVotes · %
1
Mohinder Kaur
SAD
SAD
31,75850.4%
2
Santosh Chowdhry
INC
INC
22,39635.5%
3
Gurpal Chand
BSP
BSP
7,59212.0%
4
Bhupinder Pal Singh
IND
IND
1,3072.1%

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The RecordThe PlaceThe State

A clear win, a two-to-three-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
14.8%

winning margin, share of votes

How many parties were really in the race?

SEAT
Two or three

SAD, INC and BSP took 98% of the votes.

Parties in the race 2.53

How did the vote split?

SEAT
50.4%won by SAD
SAD 50.4%INC 35.5%BSP 12.0%Others 2.1%

This seat number was reused from 2012. The district data on file describe the seat as contested from 2012, so they are not shown for earlier elections.

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Who has won Sham Chaurasi, 1977–2007

  1. 1977DEV RAJ NASRALA (CPM), margin 14.3%
  2. 1980HARI MITTAR HANS (INC(I)), margin 3.5%
  3. 1985HARI MITTER (INC), margin 2.5%
  4. 1992GURPAL CHAND (BSP), margin 14.6%
  5. 1997ARJAN SINGH JOSH (SAD), margin 18.4%
  6. 2002RAM LUBHAYA (INC), margin 1.9%
  7. 2007MOHINDER KAUR (SAD), margin 3.0%