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Elections 98

State: Punjab
Constituency: Tarn Taran
Total Votes Polled: 600051
Winner: SAD Prem Singh Lalpura 355653
Runner Up: INC Gurinder Partap Singh Kairon 213735
Margin: 141918 (40%)


Elections 96

State: Punjab
Constituency: Tarn Taran
Total Votes Polled: 640771
Winner: SAD Major Singh Uboke 270499
Runner Up: INC Surinder Singh Kairon 236647
Margin: 33852 (5.41%)


The hotbed of Akali politics, 1996 saw the election of the Akali Dal's Major Uboke Singh, and the defeat of sitting MP S S Kairon -- whose father Pratapsingh was once the state's chief minister -- who was contesting on the Congress ticket, by 44,000 votes. In 1989, the MP was Simranjit Singh Mann, on the SAD-Mann ticket. Mann, of course, did not take his seat in Parliament because he insisted on carrying his sword into the House. Interestingly, the first five elections saw the Congress elected from here, before the constituency switched wholeheartedly to the Akali Dal. The only break was in 1991, with Kairon.

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