1997 Punjab Legislative Assembly election

1997 Punjab Legislative Assembly Election
All 117 seats to the Vidhan Sabha ; 59 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	68.73% ( 44.91pp)
Chief Minister before election; Rajinder Kaur Bhattal ; INC	Elected Chief Minister; Parkash Singh Badal ; SAD

Last updated October 24, 2025

Punjab Legislative Assembly election, 1997 was held in Indian state of Punjab in 1997, to elect 117 members to the 11th Punjab Legislative Assembly.^[1] Shiromani Akali Dal had majority of the seats in the 11th Punjab Assembly that was constituted after this election. Parkash Singh Badal was elected as the chief minister.

Parties contested

Akali dal broke its alliance with BSP with whom they fought Lok sabha elections of 1996 and allianced with BJP SAD 94 BJP 23

Voter statistics

S.no.	Title	#
1.	Electors	1,52,25,395
2.	Votes polled	1,04,63,868
3.	Turnout	68.7%
4.	Total ACs	117
5.	General seats	88
6.	SC reserved constituencies	29

Voter turnout

Voter turnout and total electors list^[2]

Results

By alliance

S.no.	Alliance	Seats	Votes %	Contested voteshare
1.	Akali Dal Alliance	95	46.8	47.1
2.	Congress Alliance	16	29.3	30
3.	BSP Alliance	2	10.6	12.9
Total		113	86.7	90

By party

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Summary of results of the Punjab Legislative Assembly election, 1997^[1]

Party		Candidates	Seats won	Votes	% of votes
	Shiromani Akali Dal	92	75	38,73,099	37.64%
	Bharatiya Janata Party	22	18	8,57,219	8.33%
	Indian National Congress	105	14	27,36,346	26.38%
	Communist Party of India	15	2	3,07,023	2.86%
	Bahujan Samaj Party	67	1	7,69,675	6.37%
	Shiromani Akali Dal (A)	30	1	3,19,111	3.10%
	Independents	244	6	11,18,348	10.87%
Total^[3]		693	117	1,02,89,814

Results by constituencies

S.no.	AC name	AC no.	Type	Winning candidate		Total electors	Total votes	Poll %	Margin	Margin %
1	Abohar	91	GEN	Ram Kumar	BJP	1,48,380	1,00,293	67.6 %	15,562	15.5%
2	Adampur	28	GEN	Saroop Singh	SAD	1,19,434	84,410	70.7 %	16,304	19.3%
3	Ajnala	20	GEN	Rattan Singh	SAD	1,34,221	1,02,467	76.3 %	1,711	1.7%
4	Amloh	78	SC	Balwant Singh	SAD	1,47,805	1,02,116	69.1 %	12,732	12.5%
5	Amritsar Central	18	GEN	Laxmi Kanta Chawla	BJP	83,232	50,771	61.0 %	14,583	28.7%
6	Amritsar North	16	GEN	Baldev Raj Chawla	BJP	1,14,372	59,968	52.4 %	16,732	27.9%
7	Amritsar South	19	GEN	Manjit Singh Calcutta	SAD	1,40,221	77,599	55.3 %	14,495	18.7%
8	Amritsar West	17	GEN	Om Parkash Soni	IND	1,83,163	1,07,564	58.7 %	13,671	12.7%
9	Anandpur Sahib-Ropar	66	GEN	Tara Singh	SAD	1,26,851	81,387	64.2 %	6,044	7.4%
10	Attari	22	SC	Gulzar Singh	SAD	1,07,125	70,340	65.7 %	41,178	58.5%
11	Bagha Purana	100	GEN	Sadhu Singh	SAD	1,23,916	95,824	77.3 %	4,373	4.6%
12	Balachaur	44	GEN	Nand Lal	SAD	1,25,037	80,941	64.7 %	20,522	25.4%
13	Balluana	90	SC	Gurtej Singh	SAD	1,20,739	82,921	68.7 %	22,031	26.6%
14	Banga	37	SC	Mohan Lal	SAD	1,11,340	81,150	72.9 %	609	0.8%
15	Banur	70	GEN	Kanwaljit Singh	SAD	1,34,234	92,554	68.9 %	22,598	24.4%
16	Barnala	83	GEN	Malkiat Singh	IND	1,32,009	99,443	75.3 %	23,714	23.8%
17	Batala	2	GEN	Jagdish	BJP	1,30,145	89,860	69.0 %	13,857	15.4%
18	Beas	12	GEN	Manmohan Singh	SAD	1,26,962	91,722	72.2 %	1,827	2.0%
19	Bhadaur	84	SC	Balbir Singh	SAD	1,14,730	85,567	74.6 %	11,527	13.5%
20	Bhatinda	111	GEN	Chiranji Lal Garg	SAD	1,93,167	1,11,463	57.7 %	24,381	21.9%
21	Bholath	40	GEN	Jagir Kaur	SAD	1,12,970	80,783	71.5 %	28,027	34.7%
22	Budhlada	116	GEN	Hardev Singh	CPI	1,24,112	97,626	78.7 %	6,449	6.6%
23	Chamkaur Sahib	67	SC	Satwant Kaur	SAD	1,13,509	71,922	63.4 %	26,144	36.4%
24	Dakala	73	GEN	Harmail Singh	SAD	1,39,963	1,05,788	75.6 %	9,903	9.4%
25	Dakha	55	SC	Bikramjit Singh	SAD	2,09,058	1,26,522	60.5 %	15,110	11.9%
26	Dasuya	51	GEN	Romesh Chander	INC	1,20,362	82,180	68.3 %	53	0.1%
27	Dhanaula	85	GEN	Gobind Singh	SAD	1,19,150	92,764	77.9 %	3,082	3.3%
28	Dharamkot	98	SC	Sital Singh	SAD	1,24,204	90,360	72.8 %	26,642	29.5%
29	Dhariwal	6	GEN	Sucha Singh Langah	SAD	1,17,425	85,062	72.4 %	4,479	5.3%
30	Dhuri	80	GEN	Dhanwant Singh	IND	1,26,343	96,781	76.6 %	3,691	3.8%
31	Dina Nagar	8	SC	Roop Rani	BJP	1,24,892	75,556	60.5 %	27,818	36.8%
32	Dirbha	87	GEN	Gurcharan Singh	INC	1,15,875	94,881	81.9 %	6,363	6.7%
33	Faridkot	104	GEN	Avtar Singh	INC	1,50,512	1,11,139	73.8 %	3,523	3.2%
34	Fatehgarh	1	GEN	Nirmal Singh	IND	1,10,698	82,970	75.0 %	5,536	6.7%
35	Fazilka	92	GEN	Surjit Kumar	BJP	1,19,160	93,093	78.1 %	12,121	13.0%
36	Firozepur	95	GEN	Girdhara Singh	BJP	1,31,177	85,496	65.2 %	23,869	27.9%
37	Firozepur Cantonment	96	GEN	Janmeja Singh	SAD	1,15,672	87,999	76.1 %	1,730	2.0%
38	Garhdiwala	50	SC	Sohan Singh	SAD	1,17,417	73,251	62.4 %	18,516	25.3%
39	Garhshankar	45	GEN	Shingara Ram Sahungra	BSP	1,15,301	77,489	67.2 %	801	1.0%
40	Ghanaur	72	GEN	Ajaib Singh Mukhmail Pura	SAD	1,28,171	89,964	70.2 %	7,824	8.7%
41	Giddar Baha	106	GEN	Manpreet Singh Badal	SAD	1,31,786	97,179	73.7 %	17,148	17.6%
42	Gurdaspur	7	GEN	Kartar Singh Pahra	SAD	1,30,216	88,016	67.6 %	17,107	19.4%
43	Guru Har Sahai	94	GEN	Paramjit Singh	SAD	1,41,744	1,10,411	77.9 %	8,608	7.8%
44	Hoshiarpur	47	GEN	Tikhshan Sood	BJP	1,28,754	80,793	62.7 %	22,115	27.4%
45	Jagraon	53	GEN	Bhag Singh	SAD	1,37,323	96,946	70.6 %	18,954	19.6%
46	Jalalabad	93	GEN	Sher Singh	SAD	1,47,927	1,16,769	78.9 %	3,397	2.9%
47	Jandiala	15	SC	Ajaypal Singh Mirankot	SAD	1,45,055	92,821	64.0 %	19,760	21.3%
48	Joga	114	GEN	Baldev Singh	SAD	1,15,657	92,531	80.0 %	3,619	3.9%
49	Jullundur Cantonment	29	GEN	Tej Parkash Singh	INC	1,27,315	77,077	60.5 %	3,660	4.7%
50	Jullundur Central	31	GEN	Manoranjan Kalia	BJP	1,23,014	71,826	58.4 %	19,370	27.0%
51	Jullundur North	30	GEN	Avtar Henry	INC	1,19,515	74,623	62.4 %	2,170	2.9%
52	Jullundur South	32	SC	Chuni Lal	BJP	1,31,230	85,882	65.4 %	6,134	7.1%
53	Kahnuwan	5	GEN	Sewa Singh Sekhwan	SAD	1,12,812	81,502	72.2 %	6,755	8.3%
54	Kapurthala	41	GEN	Raghbir Singh	SAD	1,11,537	71,100	63.7 %	12,255	17.2%
55	Kartarpur	33	SC	Jagjit Singh	INC	1,20,395	84,205	69.9 %	276	0.3%
56	Khadoor Sahib	24	SC	Ranjit Singh	SAD	1,14,193	74,413	65.2 %	33,290	44.7%
57	Khanna	64	SC	Bachan Singh	SAD	1,30,540	89,207	68.3 %	12,749	14.3%
58	Kharar	69	GEN	Daljeet Kaur	SAD	1,86,970	1,01,492	54.3 %	34,756	34.2%
59	Kot Kapura	103	GEN	Mantar Singh	IND	1,44,040	1,05,674	73.4 %	15,629	14.8%
60	Kum Kalan	62	SC	Charanjit Singh	SAD	1,33,344	92,374	69.3 %	13,423	14.5%
61	Lambi	108	GEN	Parkash Singh Badal	SAD	1,23,519	93,592	75.8 %	28,728	30.7%
62	Lehra	89	GEN	Rajinder Kaur Bhattal	INC	1,22,760	97,788	79.7 %	10,730	11.0%
63	Lohian	34	GEN	Ajit Singh Kohar	SAD	1,34,946	1,00,051	74.1 %	27,160	27.1%
64	Ludhiana East	59	GEN	Sat Pal Gosain	BJP	1,07,827	62,874	58.3 %	16,311	25.9%
65	Ludhiana North	57	GEN	Rakesh Kumar	INC	1,31,959	65,217	49.4 %	20,862	32.0%
66	Ludhiana Rural	60	GEN	Hira Singh Gabbaria	SAD	3,04,396	1,64,704	54.1 %	61,027	37.1%
67	Ludhiana West	58	GEN	Maheshinder Singh	SAD	1,40,898	76,375	54.2 %	12,893	16.9%
68	Mahilpur	46	SC	Sohan Singh	SAD	1,00,624	66,855	66.4 %	8,733	13.1%
69	Majitha	13	GEN	Parkash Singh	SAD	1,16,382	88,158	75.7 %	2,831	3.2%
70	Malerkotla	81	GEN	Nusrat Ali Khan	SAD	1,43,138	1,07,639	75.2 %	19,020	17.7%
71	Malout	107	SC	Sujan Singh	SAD	1,27,844	82,736	64.7 %	16,966	20.5%
72	Mansa	115	GEN	Sukhvinder Singh	SAD	1,36,293	95,613	70.2 %	1,786	1.9%
73	Moga	99	GEN	Tota Singh	SAD	1,33,659	88,825	66.5 %	21,399	24.1%
74	Morinda	68	GEN	Ravi Inder Singh	SAD	1,34,315	95,268	70.9 %	4,835	5.1%
75	Mukerian	52	GEN	Arunesh Kumar	BJP	1,37,792	99,545	72.2 %	19,492	19.6%
76	Muktsar	105	GEN	Harnirpal Singh	SAD	1,35,073	93,237	69.0 %	12,768	13.7%
77	Nabha	77	GEN	Narinder Singh	SAD	1,40,317	1,10,055	78.4 %	1,294	1.2%
78	Nakodar	35	GEN	Amarjit Singh Samra	INC	1,24,878	89,874	72.0 %	10,848	12.1%
79	Nangal	65	GEN	Madan Mohan Mittal	BJP	1,14,113	75,259	66.0 %	9,271	12.3%
80	Narot Mehra	9	SC	Ram Lal	BJP	1,06,958	70,189	65.6 %	21,252	30.3%
81	Nathana	112	SC	Balbir Singh	SAD	1,27,392	87,831	68.9 %	16,904	19.2%
82	Naushahra Panwan	25	GEN	Ranjit Singh	SAD	1,03,296	68,702	66.5 %	31,596	46.0%
83	Nawan Shahr	38	GEN	Charanjit Singh	IND	1,41,268	1,04,391	73.9 %	1,990	1.9%
84	Nihal Singh Wala	101	SC	Ajaib Singh	CPI	1,14,967	85,487	74.4 %	1,791	2.1%
85	Nur Mahal	36	GEN	Gurdip Singh	SAD	1,22,281	92,836	75.9 %	448	0.5%
86	Pakka Kalan	110	SC	Makhan Singh	SAD	1,20,682	81,600	67.6 %	11,029	13.5%
87	Panjgrain	102	SC	Gurdev Singh Badal	SAD	1,21,481	89,299	73.5 %	8,360	9.4%
88	Pathankot	10	GEN	Mohan Lal	BJP	1,23,297	82,711	67.1 %	14,716	17.8%
89	Patiala Town	76	GEN	Surjit Singh Kohli	SAD	1,40,286	79,464	56.6 %	12,664	15.9%
90	Patti	26	GEN	Adaish Partap Singh	SAD	1,25,816	85,999	68.4 %	47,487	55.2%
91	Payal	61	GEN	Sadhu Singh	SAD	1,22,579	87,148	71.1 %	7,274	8.3%
92	Phagwara	43	SC	Swarna Ram	BJP	1,47,094	96,996	65.9 %	26,623	27.4%
93	Phillaur	39	SC	Sarwan Singh	SAD	1,22,565	88,955	72.6 %	5,552	6.2%
94	Qadian	3	GEN	Natha Singh Dalam	SAD	1,31,298	94,523	72.0 %	5,663	6.0%
95	Qila Raipur	56	GEN	Parkash Singh Badal	SAD	1,22,318	87,511	71.5 %	11,032	12.6%
96	Raikot	54	GEN	Harmohinder Singh Pardhan	INC	1,23,977	92,032	74.2 %	4,052	4.4%
97	Raja Sansi	21	GEN	Vir Singh Lopoke	SAD	1,12,257	85,695	76.3 %	20,655	24.1%
98	Rajpura	71	GEN	Balram Ji Dass	BJP	1,38,793	93,450	67.3 %	1,091	1.2%
99	Rampura Phul	113	GEN	Sikandar Singh	SAD	1,28,785	96,124	74.6 %	9,484	9.9%
100	Samana	75	GEN	Jagtar Singh Rajla	SAD	2,14,305	1,14,127	53.3 %	40,296	35.3%
101	Samrala	63	GEN	Amrik Singh	INC	1,10,568	83,098	75.2 %	1,419	1.7%
102	Sangrur	86	GEN	Ranjit Singh	SAD	1,36,696	1,01,111	74.0 %	2,356	2.3%
103	Sardulgarh	117	GEN	Ajit Inder Singh	SAD(A)	1,24,201	99,290	79.9 %	3,117	3.1%
104	Sham Chaurasi	48	SC	Arjan Singh Josh	SAD	1,17,504	74,559	63.5 %	13,495	18.1%
105	Sherpur	82	SC	Gobind Singh	SAD	1,16,748	90,325	77.4 %	3,202	3.5%
106	Shutrana	74	SC	Gurdev Singh Sidhu	SAD	1,41,832	96,590	68.1 %	16,173	16.7%
107	Sirhind	79	GEN	Harbans Lal	INC	1,33,703	97,246	72.7 %	5,239	5.4%
108	Srihargobindpur	4	GEN	Balbir Singh	SAD	1,06,090	71,137	67.1 %	24,989	35.1%
109	Sujanpur	11	GEN	Satpal Saini	BJP	1,19,889	85,810	71.6 %	10,034	11.7%
110	Sultanpur	42	GEN	Upinderjit Kaur	SAD	1,12,575	80,650	71.6 %	21,926	27.2%
111	Sunam	88	GEN	Bhagwan Dass Arora	INC	1,34,659	1,04,925	77.9 %	2,506	2.4%
112	Talwandi Sabo	109	GEN	Harminder Singh Jassi	INC	1,19,178	92,602	77.7 %	3,193	3.4%
113	Tanda	49	GEN	Balvir Singh	SAD	1,14,886	79,405	69.1 %	20,386	25.7%
114	Tarn Taran	23	GEN	Prem Singh Lalpur	SAD	1,20,879	77,100	63.8 %	25,219	32.7%
115	Valtoha	27	GEN	Jagir Singh	SAD	1,08,827	80,618	74.1 %	1,154	1.4%
116	Verka	14	SC	Ujagar Singh	SAD	1,65,207	93,809	56.8 %	31,445	33.5%
117	Zira	97	GEN	Inderjit Singh	SAD	1,33,104	1,02,031	76.7 %	19,598	19.2%

Government formation

Shiromani Akali Dal had majority of the seats in the 11th Punjab Assembly that was constituted after this election. Parkash Singh Badal was elected as the Chief Minister.

Bye elections 1997-2002

#	AC name	No	Type	State	Winning candidate	Party	Electors	Votes	Turnout	Reason
1	Ludhiana North	57	GEN	Punjab	Rakesh Pandey	INC	1,39,156	51,187	NA	NA
2	Majitha	13	GEN	Punjab	Raj Mohinder Singh	SAD	1,23,829	87,764	70.9 %	Death of Shri Sardar Parkash Singh Majitha
3	Raipur	56	GEN	Punjab	Jagdish Singh Garcha	SAD	1,22,399	90,129	73.6 %	NA
4	Shamchurasi	48	SC	Punjab	Mohinder Kaur	SAD	1,18,915	63,639	53.5 %	NA
5	Sunam	88	GEN	Punjab	Parminder Singh	SAD	1,39,301	97,497	70 %	NA

References

1 2 "Statistical Report On General Election, 1997 To The Legislative Assembly Of Punjab" (PDF). Election Commission of India
↑ "IndiaVotes | India's largest election database". IndiaVotes. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
↑ The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.

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[pdf-1] 1 2 "Statistical Report On General Election, 1997 To The Legislative Assembly Of Punjab" (PDF). Election Commission of India

[2] "IndiaVotes | India's largest election database". IndiaVotes. Retrieved 20 August 2024.

[3] The total includes votes and contestants of all parties, even those who failed to win any seat.

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