Punjab polls 2012 analysis: Twist in the tale: Cong has largest vote share

Kanchan Vasdev/TNS

Chandigarh, March 6

Even though the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) won 56 seats, the Congress had the largest share of 40.11 per cent votes. Of the total 1,38,94,527 voters as many as 55, 72, 724 voted for the Congress and 48, 28, 603 voters for the SAD, a 34.75 per cent of the total votes.

The BJP polled 7.13 per cent of the total votes polled. Manpreet Badal’s PPP emerged fourth with 5.17 per cent votes in its favour. The Independents put up a good show polling 6.76 votes. The Bahujan Samaj party (BSP), contesting on all 117 seats, could get 4.30 per cent votes. The CPI polled 0.82 per cent votes, the CPI (M) 0.16 and the CPI (ML) 0.10 per cent. The Shiromani Akali Dal (Mann), polled 0.28 per cent votes.

In 2007, the Congress had polled 40.90 per cent votes and the SAD 37.09 per cent.

Vote share percentage

Congress 40.11

SAD 34.75

BJP 7.13

PPP 5.17

BSP 4.30

CPI 0.82

CPI (M) 0.16