The Congress has increased its tally from 46 to 77 assembly seats and stormed to power in Punjab after 10 years but its vote share declined by 1.61 percent compared to the last state elections.
Compared to its performance five years back, the Congress' votes share declined by 1.61 per cent to 38.5 per cent this time from 40.11 per cent it had secured in 2012.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) saw a vote share decline of 9.45 per cent polling 25.3 per cent votes as compared with 34.75 per cent five years back. Its seat tally declined to 15 from 56 last time.
The BJP too had a lesser share in terms of vote percentage as compared to 2012 assembly elections. The vote share declined to 5.4 per cent - a decline of 1.83 per cent from the 2012 poll share of 7.13 per cent.
It was the new entrant Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) which played spoilsport for the two traditional contenders - ruling SAD-BJP alliance and Congress - as far as vote share is concerned.
Contesting the Punjab state elections for the first time, AAP polled 23.7 per cent of the total votes.
Most other parties got negligible vote share of less than two per cent each. A total of 1,08,157 voters used the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
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