Amritsar West Assembly constituency

Amritsar West
Constituency No. 16 for the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
StatePunjab
DistrictAmritsar
Lok Sabha constituencyAmritsar
Total electors214,073 (in 2022)
ReservationSC
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Punjab Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyAam Aadmi Party
Elected year2022

Amritsar West is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency in Amritsar district, Punjab state, India.[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Member[2] Party
1952 Shanoo Devi Indian National Congress
1957 Balram Das Tandon Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1962
1967 Satyapal Dang Communist Party of India
1969
1972
1977
1980 Sewa Ram Indian National Congress (I)
1985 Indian National Congress
1992 Vimla Dang Communist Party of India
1997 Om Parkash Soni Independent
2002
2007 Indian National Congress
2012 Raj Kumar Verka
2017
2022 Jasbir Singh Sandhu Aam Aadmi Party

Election results

2022

Assembly Election, 2022: Amritsar West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AAP Jasbir Singh Sandhu[3] 69,251 58.39
INC Raj Kumar Verka[4] 25,338 21.36
SAD Dalbir Singh Verka 10,370 8.74
BJP Amit Kumar 8,999 7.59
CPI Amarjit Singh Asal 1,368 1.15
NOTA None of the above 987 0.83
Majority 43,913 37.03
Turnout 1,18,606 55.28
Registered electors 214,073 [5]
AAP gain from INC Swing

2017

Punjab Assembly election, 2017: Amritsar West[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Raj Kumar Verka 52,271 50.84
BJP Rakesh Gill 24,424 23.82
AAP Balwinder Singh Sahota 24,731 23.17
CPI Gurnam Kaur 1,725 1.62
BSP Jaswant Singh 847 0.79
APP Satnam Singh 409 0.38
BSP (A) Balwinder Singh 407 0.38
Registered electors 179,766 [8]

References

  1. ^ "List of Punjab Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Amritsar West Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. ^ "Punjab Election 2022: Complete List of AAP Candidates, Check Names HERE". www.india.com. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Punjab Elections 2022: Full list of Congress Candidates and their Constituencies". FE Online. No. The Financial Express (India). The Indian Express Group. 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  5. ^ "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Amritsar West Assembly election result, 2012". Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  7. ^ Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  8. ^ Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab. "Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2021.

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