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Elections in the Republic of India in 1997 included, the 1997 Punjab Legislative Assembly election, elections to seats in the Rajya Sabha and the elections to the posts of President and vice president.
Date(s) | State | Government before election | Chief Minister before election | Government after election | Chief Minister after election | Maps | ||
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7 February 1997 | Punjab | Indian National Congress | Rajinder Kaur Bhattal | Shiromani Akali Dal | Parkash Singh Badal | ![]() | ||
Bharatiya Janata Party | ||||||||
Political Party | No. of Candidates | Seats won | Number of Votes | % of Votes | |
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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 (M) | 30 | 1 | 3,19,111 | 3.10% | |
Independents | 244 | 6 | 11,18,348 | 10.87% | |
Total [2] | 693 | 117 | 1,02,89,814 |
Assembly Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||||
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#k | Names | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |||
1 | Doda | 66.08% | Khalid Najeeb | JKNC | 23,564 | 74.36% | Ajay Kumar | BJP | 7,789 | 24.58% | 15,775 | ||
States | No. of MLA/MPs | Value of each Vote | K. R. Narayanan (Votes) | K. R. Narayanan (Values) | T. N. Seshan (Votes) | T. N. Seshan (Values) | Invalid (Votes) | Invalid (Values) |
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Members of Parliament | 776 | 708 | 676 | 478,608 | 26 | 18,408 | 32 | 22,656 |
Andhra Pradesh | 294 | 148 | 254 | 37,592 | 9 | 1,332 | 17 | 2,516 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 60 | 8 | 56 | 448 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24 |
Assam | 126 | 116 | 110 | 12,760 | 5 | 580 | 1 | 116 |
Bihar | 324 | 174 | 285 | 49,590 | 8 | 1,392 | 15 | 2,610 |
Goa | 40 | 20 | 35 | 700 | 2 | 40 | 3 | 60 |
Gujarat | 182 | 147 | 156 | 22,932 | 11 | 1,617 | 7 | 1,029 |
Haryana | 90 | 112 | 77 | 8,624 | 3 | 336 | 6 | 672 |
Himachal Pradesh | 68 | 51 | 63 | 3,213 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 102 |
Jammu and Kashmir | 87 | 72 | 74 | 5,328 | 1 | 72 | 4 | 288 |
Karnataka | 224 | 131 | 191 | 25,021 | 13 | 1,703 | 11 | 1,441 |
Kerala | 140 | 152 | 135 | 20,520 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 304 |
Madhya Pradesh | 320 | 130 | 296 | 38,480 | 9 | 1,170 | 13 | 1,690 |
Maharashtra | 288 | 175 | 173 | 30,275 | 96 | 16,800 | 1 | 175 |
Manipur | 60 | 18 | 52 | 936 | 4 | 72 | 0 | 0 |
Meghalaya | 60 | 17 | 43 | 731 | 10 | 170 | 4 | 68 |
Mizoram | 40 | 8 | 34 | 272 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
Nagaland | 60 | 9 | 55 | 495 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
Orissa | 147 | 149 | 132 | 19,668 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1,341 |
Punjab | 117 | 116 | 106 | 12,296 | 1 | 116 | 7 | 812 |
Rajasthan | 200 | 129 | 174 | 22,446 | 4 | 516 | 12 | 1,548 |
Sikkim | 32 | 7 | 31 | 217 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tamil Nadu | 234 | 176 | 229 | 40304 | 2 | 352 | 2 | 352 |
Tripura | 60 | 26 | 59 | 1534 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Uttar Pradesh | 425 | 208 | 377 | 78,416 | 24 | 4,992 | 7 | 1,456 |
West Bengal | 294 | 151 | 272 | 41,072 | 5 | 755 | 4 | 604 |
Delhi | 70 | 58 | 58 | 3,364 | 3 | 174 | 8 | 464 |
Pondicherry | 30 | 16 | 28 | 448 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
TOTAL | 4,848 | 3,232 | 4,231 | 956,290 | 240 | 50,631 | 171 | 22,656 |
Source: Election Commission of India. [4] |
Candidate | Party | Electoral Votes | % of Votes | |
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Krishan Kant | Janata Dal | 441 | 61.76 | |
Surjit Singh Barnala | SAD | 273 | 38.24 | |
Total | 714 | 100.00 | ||
Valid Votes | 714 | 93.95 | ||
Invalid Votes | 46 | 6.05 | ||
Turnout | 760 | 96.20 | ||
Abstentions | 30 | 3.80 | ||
Electors | 790 |