Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha Constituency in Punjab, India
Amritsar PB-2 | |
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Lok Sabha constituency | |
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Constituency details | |
Country | India |
State | Punjab |
Assembly constituencies | Ajnala Raja Sansi Majitha Amritsar North Amritsar West Amritsar Central Amritsar East Amritsar South Attari |
Established | 1952 |
Member of Parliament | |
18th Lok Sabha | |
Incumbent Gurjeet Singh Aujla | |
Party | Indian National Congress |
Elected year | 2024 |
Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 13 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the Indian state of Punjab, represented since 2017 by Gurjeet Singh Aujla of the Congress party. The Minister of Finance of India (2014–2019), Arun Jaitley, unsuccessfully contested this constituency for the BJP in 2014.
Assembly segments
Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency comprises nine Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments, which are:[1]
# | Name | District | Member | Party | Leading (in 2024) | ||
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11 | Ajnala | Amritsar | Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal | AAP | AAP | ||
12 | Raja Sansi | Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria | INC | INC | |||
13 | Majitha | Ganieve Kaur Majithia | SAD | SAD | |||
15 | Amritsar North | Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh | AAP | BJP | |||
16 | Amritsar West (SC) | Jasbir Singh Sandhu | AAP | INC | |||
17 | Amritsar Central | Ajay Gupta | AAP | BJP | |||
18 | Amritsar East | Jeevan Jyot Kaur | AAP | BJP | |||
19 | Amritsar South | Inderbir Singh Nijjar | AAP | AAP | |||
20 | Attari (SC) | Jaswinder Singh Ramdas | AAP | INC |
Members of Parliament
Most Successful parties from Amritsar Lok Sabha
INC (14 Times) (66.666%)
BJP (3 Times) (14.285%)
Janata Party (1 Time) (4.761%)
BJS (1 Time) (4.761%)
IND (1 Time) (4.761%)
INC (I) (1 time) (4.761%)
Year | Member | Party | |
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1952 | Gurmukh Singh Musafir | Indian National Congress | |
1957 | |||
1962 | |||
1967 | Yagya Dutt Sharma | Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
1971 | Durgadas Bhatia | Indian National Congress | |
1972^ | Raghunandan Lal Bhatia | ||
1977 | Baldev Prakash | Janata Party | |
1980 | Raghunandan Lal Bhatia | Indian National Congress (I) | |
1984 | Indian National Congress | ||
1989 | Kirpal Singh | Independent | |
1991 | Raghunandan Lal Bhatia | Indian National Congress | |
1996 | |||
1998 | Daya Singh Sodhi | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
1999 | Raghunandan Lal Bhatia | Indian National Congress | |
2004 | Navjot Singh Sidhu | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2007^ | |||
2009 | |||
2014 | Amarinder Singh | Indian National Congress | |
2017^ | Gurjeet Singh Aujla | ||
2019 | |||
2024 |
^ by-poll
Election results
2024
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Gurjeet Singh Aujla | 2,55,181 | 28.18 | ![]() | |
AAP | Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal | 2,14,880 | 23.73 | ![]() | |
BJP | Taranjit Singh Sandhu | 2,07,205 | 22.88 | ![]() | |
SAD | Anil Joshi | 1,62,896 | 17.99 | New | |
SAD(A) | Emaan Singh Mann | 26,796 | 2.96 | New | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 3,714 | 0.41 | ![]() | |
Majority | 40,301 | 4.45 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 9,05,656 | ||||
Registered electors | 16,11,263 | ||||
INC hold | Swing | ![]() |
General election 2019
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Gurjeet Singh Aujla | 445,032 | 51.78 | ![]() | |
BJP | Hardeep Singh Puri | 3,45,406 | 40.19 | ![]() | |
AAP | Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal | 20,087 | 2.34 | ![]() | |
CPI | Daswinder Kaur | 16,335 | 1.90 | ![]() | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 8,763 | 1.02 | ![]() | |
Majority | 99,626 | 11.59 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 8,60,582 | 57.07 | ![]() | ||
INC hold | Swing |
By-election - 2017
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Gurjeet Singh Aujla | 508,153 | 50.09 | ![]() | |
BJP | Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina | 3,08,964 | 30.45 | ![]() | |
AAP | Upkar Singh Sandhu | 1,49,984 | 14.78 | ![]() | |
CPI | Daswinder Kaur | 17,886 | 1.76 | ![]() | |
None of the Above | None of the Above | 9,747 | 0.96 | ![]() | |
Majority | 1,99,189 | 19.64 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 10,16,125 | 70.50 | ![]() | ||
INC hold | Swing |
General election 2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Amarinder Singh | 482,876 | 47.94 | ![]() | |
BJP | Arun Jaitley | 3,80,106 | 37.74 | ![]() | |
AAP | Dr. Daljit Singh | 82,633 | 8.20 | new | |
CPI | Amarjit Singh Asal | 12,902 | 1.28 | N/A | |
BSP | Pardeep Singh Walia | 5,870 | 0.58 | ![]() | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 2,533 | 0.25 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,02,770 | 10.20 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 10,07,286 | 68.19 | ![]() | ||
INC gain from BJP | Swing |
General election - 2009
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Navjot Singh Sidhu | 392,046 | 48.13 | ![]() | |
INC | Om Parkash Soni | 3,85,188 | 47.29 | ![]() | |
BSP | B. K. N. Chhibber | 11,108 | 1.36 | ![]() | |
Independent | Lavinder Kumar | 8,121 | 1.00 | N/A | |
Independent | Naresh Singh Bhadauriya | 3,357 | 0.41 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,858 | 0.84 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 8,14,594 | 65.63 | ![]() | ||
BJP hold | Swing |
By-election - 2007
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Navjot Singh Sidhu | 444,748 | 50.60 | ![]() | |
INC | Surinder Singla | 3,67,122 | 41.77 | ![]() | |
BSP | Surinder Arjun Pandit | 21,416 | 2.44 | ![]() | |
Independent | Gurvinder Singh Shampura | 11,656 | 1.33 | N/A | |
BSP (A) | Mukhjit Singh Bhullar | 8,938 | 1.01 | N/A | |
Majority | 77,626 | 8.83 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 8,78,992 | 67.10 | ![]() | ||
BJP hold | Swing |
General election - 2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Navjot Singh Sidhu | 394,223 | 55.38 | ![]() | |
INC | Raghunandan Lal Bhatia | 2,84,691 | 39.99 | ![]() | |
BSP | Ram Sharan Paul | 15,796 | 2.21 | N/A | |
Independent | Ramesh Talwar | 5,695 | 0.80 | N/A | |
Independent | Rehmat Masih | 3,252 | 0.45 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,09,532 | 15.39 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 7,11,820 | 55.05 | ![]() | ||
BJP gain from INC | Swing |
General election - 1999
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Raghunandan Lal Bhatia | 296,533 | 50.29 | ![]() | |
BJP | Daya Singh Sodhi | 2,64,534 | 44.87 | ![]() | |
SHSAD | Bhupinder Singh Mann | 17,581 | 2.98 | N/A | |
Independent | Chaturbhuj Joshi | 2,444 | 0.41 | N/A | |
Independent | Ramesh Talwar | 2,219 | 0.38 | N/A | |
Majority | 31,999 | 5.42 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 5,89,600 | 47.38 | ![]() | ||
INC gain from BJP | Swing |
General election - 1998
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Daya Singh Sodhi | 361,133 | 56.07 | ![]() | |
INC | Raghunandan Lal Bhatia | 2,69,993 | 41.92 | ![]() | |
Independent | Durga Dass | 5,746 | 0.89 | N/A | |
BSP (A) | Amarjit Kaur Gopalpura | 3,277 | 0.51 | N/A | |
RJD | Kirpal Singh | 1,484 | 0.23 | N/A | |
Majority | 91,140 | 14.15 | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 6,44,112 | 53.75 | ![]() | ||
BJP gain from INC | Swing |
General election - 1996
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Raghunandan Lal Bhatia | 268,490 | 41.03 | ||
JD | Kirpal Singh | 2,34,818 | 35.88 | ||
BJP | Baldev Raj Chawla | 83,981 | 12.83 | ||
SAD(A) | Daljit Singh Sandhu | 19,980 | 3.05 | ||
AIIC(T) | Kewal Krishan | 12,430 | 1.90 | ||
Independent | Rehmat Masih | 11,669 | 1.78 | ||
Majority | 33,672 | 5.15 | |||
Turnout | 6,54,439 | 57.66 | |||
INC hold | Swing |
See also
References
- ^ "List of Parliamentary & Assembly Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab website.
External links
- Amritsar lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details
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