Punjab Election 2022: Abohar Assembly Seat
]Punjab Election: Abohar Assembly Constituency 2022
Abohar comes under the Firozpur district and it is one of the 117 Punjab Legislative Assembly Constituencies . People of Abohar voted for Punjab Assembly Election 2022 on February 20 and the result was declared on March 10.
In 2017, the Abohar assembly seat had 1,59,660 registered voters. Of the, 85,904 were male and 73,756 were female voters. 0.8% of votes were casted for NOTA.
In the Punjab Legislative Assembly Election 2017, Abohar constituency had 11 candidates for assembly seat contention. Abohar was one of 3 seats won by the Bharatiya Janata Party. It was a close contest with Bharatiya Janata Party's Arun Narang winning the election upstaging Indian National Congress's Sunil Jakhar by a margin of just 3,279 votes.
The top three candidates split 97.5% of votes between them. Bharatiya Janata Party's Arun Narang got a total of 55,091 votes, while Indian National Congress's Sunil Jakhar secured 51,812 votes. Aam Aadmi Party's candidate Atul Nagpal grabbed the third spot with 13,888 votes. The top three parties got 44.5%, 41.8% and 11.2% respectively.
In Punjab Assembly election 2012, Indian National Congress's Sunil Kumar Jakhar defeated independent candidate Shiv Lal Doda by 9,788 votes.