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State: Punjab
Constituency: Faridkot
Total Votes Polled: 799077
Winner: SAD Sukhbir Singh Badal 305669
Runner Up: INC Kanwaljeet Kaur 267811
Margin: 37858 (4.83%)

Sukhbir Singh Badal (SAD) wrested the seat back from the Congress in 1996 by just 38,000 votes. In 1991 the Congress's Jagmit Singh won the seat by a convincing margin, securing 58.6 % of the vote, as against the BSP's 27.2 %.

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