Elections 98

State:	Punjab
Constituency:	Sangrur
Total Votes Polled:	747116
Winner: SAD	Surjit Singh Barnala	297393
Runner Up: SAD(M)	Simranjit Singh Mann	215228
Margin: 82165 (28%)

Elections 96

State:	Punjab
Constituency:	Sangrur
Total Votes Polled:	757827
Winner: SAD	Surjeet Singh Barnala	238131
Runner Up: SAD(M)	Simranjeet Singh Mann	162479
Margin: 75652 (10.19%)

Surjit Singh Barnala -- later Punjab's chief minister -- was elected in 1977; he was defeated in 1980 by the Congress. The next time he contested the election from here was in 1996, and ranged against him was Simranjit Singh Mann. Barnala won by 76,000 votes, while the sitting Congress MP, Gurcharan Singh Dadhahoor, came fourth, after the CPI-M, winning 18.97 % of the votes.