Abohar Assembly constituency

Abohar
Constituency No. 81 for the Punjab Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Fazilka
LS constituency	Firozpur
Total electors	178,416 (in 2022)
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Punjab Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sandeep Jakhar
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2022

Abohar Assembly constituency (Sl. No.: 81) is a Punjab Legislative Assembly constituency in Fazilka district, Punjab state, India.[1] Abohar assembly constituency is one of the 117 seats of Punjab Vidhan Sabha. This constituency is located in Fazilka district of Punjab and comes under the Firozpur (Lok Sabha constituency) seat. 28% Hindu Jat, 10% Jatt Sikh, 25% Dalit, 14% Bagri Kumhar, 10% Kamboj and 13% others lived there in this constituency.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election	Name[2]	Party
1952	Chandi Ram		Indian National Congress
1957	Sahi Ram		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1962	Chandi Ram		Indian National Congress
1967	Satya Dev		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969
1972	Bal Ram		Indian National Congress
1977
1980	Sajjan Kumar		Indian National Congress
1985	Arjan Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
1992	Sajjan Kumar		Indian National Congress
1997	Ram Kumar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2002	Sunil Jakhar		Indian National Congress
2007
2012
2017	Arun Narang		Bharatiya Janata Party
2022	Sandeep Jakhar		Indian National Congress

Election results

2022

Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Abohar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sandeep Jakhar[3]	49,924	37.51
	AAP	Deep Kamboj	44,453	33.40
	BJP	Arun Narang	21,534	16.18
	SAD	Dr. Mahinder Kumar Rinwa	14,345	10.78
	Independent	Baljinder Singh	899	0.68
	NOTA	None of the above	726	0.55
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors			178,739	[4]
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	INC

2017

Punjab Assembly election, 2017: Abohar[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Arun Narang
	AAP	Atul Nagpal
	BSP	Prithi Raj
	INC	Sunil Kumar Jakhar
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
Registered electors			159,670	[6]

References

1. "List of Punjab Assembly Constituencies" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
2. "Abohar Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
3. "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.
4. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
5. Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.
6. Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab. "Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2021.

External links

• "Record of all Punjab Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 14 March 2022.

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